When a mother tried to wire money to her son, it ended up going to the wrong person. She never saw the money again.
She had lost ten thousand kroner, which Värmland’s Folkblad was the first to report on.
– I don’t know why she would swipe just ten thousand. No one has tried to sway me that much anyway, says a disappointed Ida Myrin, reporter at Värmland’s Folkblad, with a twinkle in her eye.
It was in September 2022 that a 22-year-old man from Värmland received the swish transfer of his dreams – a whopping ten thousand kroner. But the swish transfer was meant for someone else entirely.
It was a mother from southern Sweden who was going to swish her son. But the son had just changed his phone number and hadn’t had time to connect the number to his Swish account. The transfer instead went to the previous owner of the number.
– The former owner claims that he has not seen the money. He has just lived as usual and spent as usual, says Ida Myrin, reporter at Värmland’s Folkblad.
Criminal to keep the money
Now the accused has come against the 22-year-old Värmlander. In Efter fem, Jan Olsson, at the police’s national IT crime center, tells you what you should do if you received a swish transfer that you didn’t want – or if you made the same mistake as the mother.
– You must of course contact the owner of the number you have swished to. If you cannot get hold of the person, you can contact your bank and ask them to investigate the individual, explains Olsson.
The bank itself cannot return money without first confronting the recipient. If it is the case that you don’t get the money back, you should, like the mother, file a police report, explains Olsson.
– Not returning the money is a criminal act, he states.
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