A family from Volos which owns a bakery business, found their bank accounts emptied after falling victim to a Lithuanian fraud ring, according to gegonota.news.
The scammers, impersonating bank employees, contacted the businessman last Saturday afternoon to “inform” him that his accounts needed to be secured.
According to the victims, a woman speaking fluent Greek posed as a bank employee and claimed that his account had been compromised. She instructed him to follow a security process that involved setting up new access codes.
The businessman reports that the call came from a phone number that genuinely belonged to the bank, so he did not suspect it was a scam. The scammers instructed the businessman to follow instructions to protect his account, which eventually provided them with the information they needed to access and steal his funds.
The bank is now investigating whether the scammers managed to install malicious software in its systems, as they successfully mimicked the bank’s official phone number.
The family has filed a complaint against unknown perpetrators, and assistance from Interpol has been requested to track down the criminal network.
