Scammers love the blika. Want examples? This is just from one day
Blik is a convenient form of payment. Scammers love it. How do they operate? The police are regularly reported by people who have been scammed during online sales, so there is no shortage of examples.
When shopping online, you need to be very careful and it is best to use secure systems provided by services such as Allegro, OLX and Vinted. Dealing with sellers outside the system and using the links they send to your bank is asking for trouble.
Blik fraud
Police statistics show that irregularities are common. In just one day, the Kraśnik police station (Lublin Province) received further reports of fraud on internet portals.
A 36-year-old woman wanted to help her brother with a sale. The man had listed trousers worth PLN 300 on a sales portal. He received a link to a bank login page via text message, but an error occurred after entering the data. A moment later, a person posing as an employee of the portal called and said that there had been an overpayment and that the refund had to be approved. The consultant asked to authorize the BLIK code as payment for canceling the transaction. The sister helped, but as it turned out, PLN 4,000 had disappeared from her account, and the withdrawals had been made in Łódź.
Another person – a 40-year-old (also from Kraśnik County), wanted to sell a musical instrument on an advertising portal at the request of her husband. Soon she received a message on a social messenger with a link. The procedure looked identical: a bank login page appeared similar to the original one, an error occurred and after a while a consultant called, this time saying there were problems with the transaction. He also asked to generate BLIK codes. The woman had some suspicions, but the alleged consultant assured that everything was fine. She authorized BLIK and lost 3,000 zlotys from the account. The withdrawals were made in Poznań.
Police warn
We appeal for caution when making online transactions. As the above examples show, the scheme of action is very similar. The police warn: “we receive links via text message or messenger under the pretext of paying for goods, a fake bank page appears, an alleged error occurs when logging in, a fake consultant calls and asks for BLIK codes, after providing the code we lose money from the account. Let’s be vigilant, let’s not be deceived!”
