There’s a warning of a particularly sophisticated scam linked to Geneva parking tickets.
The Tribune de Genève reports on a victim who first received a text message saying he needs to pay a CHF 40 fine. After clicking on the link and entering his credit card number, he gets a phone call from the bank and saying there’s been fraudulent activity – those payments have been blocked and the fraudster stopped.
He then gets a message from the bank saying there’s been suspicious activity – that came with a code he can use to unblock the card. He then gave it to the person on the phone.
But all along, the person on the phone was part of the scam – and the victim gave them the code from the app – which was genuine.
In all he lost CHF 3,000 in a matter of minutes.
It’s thought as much a CHF 3m has been lost to the scam in Geneva and Vaud alone. But it could be higher as not everyone would report it.
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