Category: Austrian News

The perpetrators obtain personal data via text messages and deceptively genuine-looking bank websites. A group of criminals operating throughout Austria is believed to have tricked several men and women with “phishing traps” at the beginning of January. One of them is a 36-year-old woman from southeastern Styria. On 7 January, she reported that she had been lured to a deceptively real-looking bank website via text message and entered personal data using a QR code. The police said on Friday that money was then withdrawn from her account in Vienna. It…

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The unusually spring-like temperatures will be over again starting next weekend. A cold front across Austria will bring rain and fresh snow in some federal states. A maximum of eight degrees is expected for the weekend. The cold front from the northwest will reach the whole of Austria on Friday. It will remain cloudy throughout the morning. However, it should remain dry in the east and south. Otherwise, isolated rain showers may occur. The maximum daily temperatures will be between three and eleven degrees at most. Many dense clouds will…

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Do you receive calls from the number +4369010537864, and they speak to you in English with a strong Indian dialect? The displayed telephone number, 004369010537864, is the result of so-called call ID spoofing. This involves a telephone computer spoofing the outgoing number and pretending that the call is coming from a different location or telephone network. Number +4369010537864: What is the caller’s destination?・The number belongs to an Austrian mobile network. ・The callers mostly speak English, sometimes German, but always with a strong Indian accent. ・They claim to work for an…

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Energy prices for the average household rose for the second time in a row in December 2024. The Energy Agency announced in a press release that costs rose by 0.5 percent compared to November. However, they fell by 12.1 percent year-on-year, as the prices for natural gas and firewood fell compared to December 2023. However, prices are expected to rise this year. Higher prices for diesel (up 1.1 percent), premium petrol (up 0.9 percent), and heating oil (up 1.5 percent) caused the Energy Price Index (EPI) to rise in December.…

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A deposit system for disposable plastic bottles and cans was introduced in Austria at the turn of the year. Now something is also happening for returnable containers: the deposit of 9 cents per bottle, which has been in place for 40 years, is being raised to 20 cents, according to the Austrian Brewers’ Association. The “classic 0.5-litre beer bottle,” which makes up 90 percent of these returnable containers, will be most affected. The changeover will occur “in the night from 1 February to 2, 2025.”. The “Standard” recently reported on…

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From 23 January to 2 March 2025, Rathausplatz will be transformed into a huge ice rink that will delight skating fans of all ages. The Vienna Ice Dream is one of the largest open-air artificial ice rinks in the world, on two levels. The fantastically illuminated façade of City Hall forms the fairytale backdrop for the Vienna Ice Dream. An approximately 10,000 m² ice landscape provides young and old skating fans alike with entertaining winter fun. A special experience is the Sky Rink, an ice skating terrace on the second…

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Today, it will be foggy in the Danube region and the southeast. There is a risk of black ice in Lower Austria, Vienna, and Burgenland, where it may rain or snow. In the mountains, it will remain dry and foggy. Temperatures will be between minus 9 and plus 4 degrees. In the lowlands, Thursday will often continue with fog or high mist. However, more and more clouds from a cold front will move in from the west, and in Vorarlberg, it will start to rain lightly in the morning hours.…

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More and more high and medium-high clouds will move in from the west on Wednesday. In the east, some persistent fog or high fog patches will persist in the lowlands. From Salzburg to the mountains of Lower Austria, sunny weather conditions will often prevail. The wind will blow weakly from east to south. Early temperatures are minus 8 to minus 1 degrees, and daytime highs are minus 1 to plus 9 degrees. Snow and rainFog or high fog will continue in the lowlands on Thursday. However, more and more clouds…

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A look into Austrians’ wallets reveals that Viennese and Vorarlbergers are the highest earners compared to federal states. The latest salary check also clearly shows the gap between men’s and women’s incomes.Working Austrians earn an average of 49,121 euros gross per year, but salaries vary from province to province. This results from an evaluation by the employer rating platform kununu, which analyzed 181,000 salary data from the years 2023 and 2024. Viennese and Vorarlbergers earn the highest salariesAccording to the study, Viennese and Vorarlbergers earn the highest average salaries at…

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