“Courts never ask for payments over the phone.”
“Unfortunately, fraudsters keep trying to do harm and steal money with a clumsy trick. For this purpose, they manipulate their own telephones so that the phone number of a court appears as the calling number. Then they claim that a court is calling and demand Payments or ask for account numbers or similar data “, it says on the homepage of the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Vienna. “Courts never ask for payments over the phone. Courts never ask for account numbers or similar data over the phone.”
And it goes on to say: “It is therefore recommended that you ignore such calls and under no circumstances pay anything. In case of doubt, you can call back at the telephone number given.” In all previous cases, the calls were faked.
