Wrong health insurance company
High repayment? Nasty health scam!
Fraudsters want to plunder patients' accounts with fake e-mails. A woman from the Waldviertel region was also targeted by the criminals. The Austrian Health Insurance Fund is now issuing an urgent warning about this scam.
The behavior of these criminals is truly criminal! In mass mailings - each of which is cleverly tailored to the individual recipient - the perfidious cyber criminals promise large refunds for healthcare costs that have more or less been overpaid.
"Our transaction management system recognizes that you are entitled to this payment," reads one of these unscrupulous - but not entirely High German - emails, which was sent to the courageous photographer Gabriele M., for example.
Waldviertel woman targeted
The Waldviertel woman "only" had to disclose her personal account details and the shortfall would be transferred, she was told. Despite their supposedly ingenious criminal intelligence, the perpetrators are sometimes extremely stupid. The author of these lines also received a message in Dutch from a highly revealing e-mail address!
The Austrian Health Insurance Fund is now issuing an urgent warning about this scam. "Krone" cybersecurity expert Dr. Cornelius Granig also advises: "Hands off this clumsy attempt at fraud, which is flushing millions into the coffers of this mafia worldwide."
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