Taxi customers are suspected of being behind the frauds, which were carried out in several stages.
First, the driver’s code to the bank ID was found, probably through one of the passengers filming from the back seat when the driver opened Swish on his mobile.
— I said it cost SEK 350. But the girl sent SEK 450 via Swish. I wanted to give cash back for the difference, but she said no. So I swished, says a driver BT spoke to.
On a later trip, the customers, under some pretext, borrowed the driver’s mobile phone. Then you have logged into the driver’s bank account, and created a new login for it – from the customer’s own mobile phone.
Money has since been taken out of the driver’s bank account, among other things for the purchase of gold.
The suspected frauds have taken place in the Borås region and Gothenburg. How many drivers have been cheated is unclear.
— We have a handle on some. But it tends to trickle in new ones. People don’t discover this until a few weeks later, says District Attorney Mattias Sjösten.
No one has been served with suspicion of crime in the investigation.
— Things will happen in the coming months, says Mattias Sjösten.