“Bank employee” scam. He deposited 100 thousand, he was supposed to make a transfer for 1.5 million. They stopped him at the last minute

– The criminals contacted the 77-year-old by phone, posing as bank employees. They informed the man that his money was at risk and that he must withdraw it from his account and deposit it into a bank account indicated by them. The transaction was supposed to have taken place in one of the banks in the center of Warsaw, on Marszałkowska Street – informed junior asp. Jakub Pacyniak from the city center police.

Fortunately, information about the attempted fraud had reached the police earlier. They stopped the man and explained to him that the whole story about the threatened money was fiction. In this way, they prevented the transfer of almost 1.5 million złoty to the fraudsters.

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It turned out that the fraudsters had manipulated the senior citizen in such a way that a few days earlier – in accordance with the fraudsters' instructions – he had gone to Radom, withdrawn 100,000 zlotys from one of the banks and deposited it into the account indicated by them.

– The police are conducting an investigation into this case – Pacyniak noted.

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