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They had responded to an email that tricked them into entering their account number, personal identification numbers and transaction codes on a Web site that posed as a legitimate Postbank site, Postbank said -- a scam know as phishing. The people who ran the Web site then used the codes to initiate money transfers to accounts in Eastern Europe, a spokesman for Germany's biggest retail bank said. One victim noticed the fraudulent transfer before it was executed and cancelled it. The other transaction raised suspicion at the bank and was annulled after checks with the client.

Autor: VK