Swiss media<\/a>, reports the Telegraph, Central Swiss police forces are issuing a strong warning about the growing prevalence of remote fraud. <\/p>\nIn this regard, Swiss media have revealed details of how this insidious trick works.<\/p>\n
As further disclosed, the perpetrators contact potential victims by phone and claim to be bank employees. <\/p>\n
After that, the scammers claim that the account is infected with a virus.<\/p>\n
They claim that an unauthorized transfer has occurred and that the e-banking account is infected with a virus.<\/p>\n
Then, they encourage those affected to download suspected virus scanning programs onto their computers.<\/p>\n
The program is actually a remote maintenance program. <\/p>\n
This gives criminals direct access to the victim’s computer and online banking services. <\/p>\n
Bypassing two-factor authentication<\/p>\n
According to Swiss media outlet Blick.ch, victims are then instructed to log into their online bank account. <\/p>\n
In some cases, the perpetrators also installed a corresponding application on the victims’ mobile phones to bypass two-factor authentication.<\/p>\n
After logging into the system, the victim’s screen goes dark and is covered with messages, while the perpetrators distract their victims via phone. <\/p>\n
In this way, they gain unlimited access to bank accounts, which are usually emptied to just a few francs. <\/p>\n
The media outlet in question indicates that stolen funds are usually transferred to Swiss bank accounts.<\/p>\n
And to prevent something like this, Blick.ch has shown some preventive tips from the police: Banks never ask their customers to install software over the phone; Do not install programs with instructions from unknown persons; Do not share any payment details or codes; If in doubt, end the call and contact your bank via the official phone number; If you suspect fraud, report it immediately to the police. \/Telegrafi\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, in a single case in the canton of Schwyz, fraudsters managed to steal around half a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13234,13235,13236,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-20138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-bank-account","9":"tag-fraud","10":"tag-swiss-police","11":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}