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Mails or text messages that lure victims to fake tax office websites are currently being sent out. The police issue a warning and give tips on how to protect yourself.
Fraudsters pretend to be bank employees and ask for remote access apps to be installed.
Victims suffer financial losses due to unauthorized transfers at home and abroad.
Since the beginning of March 2025, people have again been receiving an increasing number of text messages and emails that, at first glance, resemble a message from the tax office. The contents of the messages refer to the FinanzOnline access. According to the message, this had either expired, or there were problems with the account. An attached link is supposed to lead to a solution to the alleged problems.
If you click on the link, you enter your bank details, and shortly afterwards, you receive a call from fraudsters pretending to be your bank employees and stating that suspicious transactions are being made via your bank account.
In the next step, people are asked to install a remote access app, which the fraudsters use to gain access to the end device and, thus, to the account of the person concerned. Companions then make transfers to accounts in Germany and abroad, which the victims are asked to confirm using an SMS TAN.
The people affected can suffer losses of several thousand euros.
Prevention tips from the police
- Pay attention to the exact spelling (errors) of senders of SMS or e-mails sent
- Do not click on any links from unknown senders
- The tax office or bank will never ask you to enter your access data via a link
- Only enter the bank or access data in the app used by the customer
- If in doubt, contact the correct/genuine bank advisor first and do not trust any security staff or other employees of the supposed house bank
- Do not authorize transfers over the phone
- sources: finanzonline.at/kurier.at/picture: canva.com
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