Latest news New scam: victims hand over bank card and give PIN code
Several people in the canton of Aargau have fallen victim to a new scam. Telephone fraudsters took the victims' bank cards under a pretext and demanded the PIN code, according to the police. The strangers then withdrew money.
10.03.2025, 10:28
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The focus of this clumsy scam is on older people, as the Aargau cantonal police reported on Monday. In one case, a 70-year-old man had several thousand francs withdrawn from his bank account.
In the new scam, the victims handed over their bank card to a completely unknown person and gave them the PIN code. The victims had previously received several telephone calls. This new method is similar to the scam with the fake police officers.
"Bank advisors" speak Swiss German
In this particular case, a stranger called the 70-year-old, the police reported. The caller wanted to know whether he knew anything about an order from a specialist store for household appliances. He was from the bank's security service and wanted to inform the person concerned that 6,000 francs had been debited from his account without authorization.
The amount would be credited, but the bank cards would be confiscated for security reasons. According to the police, the senior citizen also got other "bank employees" on the phone during the conversation. They all spoke Swiss German.
They verbosely instructed him to give them the PIN code and hand over the cards to a courier. Shortly afterwards, the courier stood at the front door, took the cards and disappeared. When the suspicious senior called his real bank, he found out that several thousand francs had already been debited.
