Beware of suspicious people online who try to convince you to participate in tests of mysterious applications or buy tickets at a surprisingly low price. You may fall victim to a scam.
If someone writes to you from a suspicious account, e.g. on Facebook, and offers to earn money in exchange for withdrawing money from an ATM, you can be sure that someone is trying to scam you. We have reports of "offers" of additional earnings circulating on the Internet, consisting of withdrawing and depositing funds. The offer has different content, but is usually written not very clearly (we quote verbatim, without correction):
If you have an account, for example, in Bank X, we direct all Bank X clients or those who have the option of paying in the elixir mode to your account, which means that the payment of their receivables is recorded in the ONLINE mode, i.e. immediately. Then you settle with the settlement department and receive a percentage of the transaction. Even 10% of the turnover. Let's say, you receive an amount of PLN 20 within a month and you have up to 10% of it. That is 2 in clean cash, for being an entity and an intermediary in the sale.
Scammers tempt you with big earnings with little effort. We warn against such a "part-time job":
It gives the possibility of a stable, high income, we especially direct it to people who are looking for an additional or stable source of income, who are simply able to make these settlements more often and faster, which makes the process more efficient.
How does it work and where does the fraud occur?
Let us quote the source, i.e. the description of the mechanism sent by the fraudster:
client A sends a certain amount of money to your account, you receive the transfer and send it to client B or generates checks or BLik codes – the latter then withdraws or sends the money further
There is a risk, bordering on certainty, that the money transferred to your account will be withdrawn, e.g. by a transfer complaint. Before you know it, the person to whom you sent the transfer or Blik code will withdraw it from an ATM and you will be left without money.
It may happen that the offer will be related to withdrawing funds from an ATM, depositing them into your own account and transferring them further in any form (SkyCash code, Blik code, transfer). Then you will become a person who withdraws funds of someone else, described in the previous paragraph, who is being robbed.
The fraudsters convince us that there is nothing illegal in the procedure, and that the income generated in this way is of no interest to the Tax Office. They use twisted logic, which we will not recall so as not to mislead anyone. What is more, they sometimes try to make the whole process credible by claiming that these are tests of new solutions, e.g. in the SkyCash application. As you can easily guess, this is not true and any such claim is false.
If you have any doubts, ask. We will always answer, and you can contact us by e-mail or e.g. in a private message on Facebook.
