ZBP: 1,200 phishing scams for PLN 66.6 mln in Q3

As little as 1,200 attempts were made to extort loans using a stolen identity for a total amount of PLN 66.6 million in the second quarter this year, the Association of Polish Banks (ZBP) informed in the 39th edition of the InfoDOK report.

“This is a low result well below the quarterly average of PLN 99 million (calculated from 2008). It is worth adding, however, that the highest fraud attempt was only ' 'PLN 4.4 million, while in the past there have been several attempts regarding amounts exceeding PLN 20 million,” Grzegorz Kondek, the campaign coordinator, said.

In the nine months of this year, Poles have claimed 45,208 lost or stolen identity documents, which is the best result in 12 years. Statistically, 491 documents were sent to the database per day. Currently, there are almost 1.82 million of such documents in the Interbank database of the Restricted Documents System.

(ISBnews)