Fraud: Private individual, Switzerland 2025
A victim accepted a supposed remote job at a travel agency and was to put together trips in return for commission.
- Incident · 06.2025 · Switzerland
- Evidence: confirmed by an authority
- Fraud
- Deception (social engineering)
As of
What happened
The earnings appeared on a platform but could never be paid out; for each payout, the victim first had to pay in money. In five months, the victim lost almost 80'000 francs in this way, their entire assets.
- Affected
- Private individual (anonymous)
- Industry
- Private individual
- Loss
- CHF 80'000
- Figure given by the source
- almost 80'000 francs
- Business interruption
- unknown
- Ransom demanded / paid
- unknown / unknown
- Data affected
- unknown
- Bankruptcy
- no
- Entry point
- unsolicited job offer (remote job at a travel agency)
What would cyber insurance have paid?
That depends on the terms. Whether those affected were insured: unknown.
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Hotline and advice before anything happens
Mostly no information 14 of 29 private products cover it fully, as an add-on or with limits.
Overview based on public policy terms, as of 06.11.2026. Only your policy and its general terms and conditions (GTC) are binding. No confirmation of cover.
What we can learn
A job where you have to pay in yourself in order to receive your wages is fraud.
Sources
- Wochenrückblick Woche 23: Zunehmende Betrugsversuche mit unseriösen Jobangeboten (opens in a new window) Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit BACS (bis 2023: NCSC) · 10.06.2025
«zeigt ein Fall, bei dem das Opfer fast 80'000 CHF verloren hat – sein gesamtes Vermögen.»