“At the end of January, a man responded to an Internet incentive for an interesting evaluation of money. He registered and was soon contacted by a financial expert who explained the principle of trading. With the invested money, he will buy cryptocurrency, which he will sell at a profit in Africa. The investor will then be paid,” police spokesman Bohumil Malášek described the used variant of the fraud that has been carried out many times.
It looked beautiful, so he sent amounts, repeatedly in the amount of around one hundred thousand crowns, to the accounts specified by the expert. It didn’t take long for the investment to grow to more than three hundred thousand dollars, i.e. a sum exceeding seven million crowns, and the banker offered a possible profit withdrawal.
Pay the fees, get millions
“The condition was the payment of a six percent tax. Shortly thereafter, it was necessary to pay a fee for money transfer insurance. With the postscript that the amount will be returned to him after safe delivery. The victim already had to borrow money for both transactions. The result of the business was to be delivered to the airport in Pardubice by the cooperating banker himself,” the spokesman described further events.
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The excited would-be rich man rushed to the airport in Pardubice. The counselor didn’t make it. In his place, the expert’s co-worker called him with a new legend that the shipment was allegedly intercepted by customs officers at the airport. But it is said that all you have to do is pay a fee of a quarter of a million crowns and everything will be taken care of. The man did not respond to that. “He understood that he had been cheated. He lost more than a million crowns during the quarter-year investment,” added the spokesperson.
The police have to track down more bankers
The police are now supposed to track down the banker. And he is also to search for another banker who lured more than one hundred thousand crowns from another man from Hodonínsk. The third banker, whose identity the 50-year-old from Břeclavsk wants to find out after the police, received more than two hundred thousand crowns from the victim after several days of investing in cryptocurrencies. The naive victim had remote access software installed on his computer. In a short time, the result arrived and another confidant was added to the list of fired.
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