13 February 22:21, Fraud, Gotland

The older man receives a text message on Saturday about a missed payment and follows the instruction to contact the specified company. The person answering manages to convince the older man to download a remote control program to his computer under false pretenses that he has been a victim of a scam in connection with a data leak of personal data. 

The remote control program is downloaded and the conversation ends after several hours. During this time, the scammer has also managed to get the man to provide credit card information and to authenticate himself with Bank-id. 

The activities on the man's account cause the bank and credit card issuer to warn the man, and the police are alerted.

A patrol goes to the man's home, where he is asked to provide a statement and is helped to remove the remote control program from his computer.

Fortunately, no money has been lost from the victim's computer. A report of attempted fraud is drawn up.