The Ukraine conflict is keeping the world in suspense; we have been reporting on it for days and have set up a live blog and our own Ukraine fake news category .

Undeterred by the current situation, fraudsters are very active in this country and take advantage of people's good faith. Here are the latest fraud reports:


Fraud via WhatsApp

“Hi dad, my phone is broken and I’m using a different one now. This is my new number, you can delete the other one.” How would you react if you received this message via WhatsApp? Save the number and write to your adult child as usual? In the current scam, messages follow in which the supposed offspring asks for money. This is where you should be careful, because they could be scammers. This is what happened to a pensioner living in Biedenkopf in mid-February. After he received his alleged daughter's new number, demands for money followed. These contained the explanation that due to the new cell phone, access to one's own account was not possible and the parents were therefore asked to send money to a recipient. In this case it was about 2,150 euros. It's just a shame for the fraudsters that the pensioner is a former police officer who saw through the scam and didn't transfer any money. Instead, he filed a complaint. ( Source )


Fraud via WhatsApp – 14,000 euros transferred

On Sunday, February 27th, 2022, fraudsters posed as the daughter of a 75-year-old via WhatsApp and caused the senior citizen to transfer a total of almost 14,000 euros. In the early afternoon, the woman from Kaltenkirchen received a message via messenger from her alleged daughter with a number she did not know: “Mom, I lost my cell phone and am now using my old cell phone with a new number!” As the alleged daughter continued, she contacted the person she was writing to several instant transfers because she was unable to carry out any banking transactions due to the loss of her own smartphone. After the third transfer from her account during the afternoon, the senior became suspicious and asked her alleged daughter to call back, which was not forthcoming. The victim then contacted her bank to stop the transfers and filed a criminal complaint with the Kaltenkirchen police station. ( Source )


Love scamming – 47-year-old woman loses 41,000 euros

A short chat or a nice email from a stranger – so-called love or romance scamming starts harmlessly. The scammers look for victims on online dating sites or social networks such as Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook and scour the member lists there. A short online invitation to chat serves as an initial contact for many people. In order to make themselves interesting to potential victims, romance scammers create unusual life stories - and they initially leave a serious impression. This is how the fraud began at the end of last year against a 47-year-old woman, who has now paid over 41,000 euros to the perpetrators. The victim was contacted via a major social media platform by an alleged American military doctor in Syria. ( Source )


Fake call Call from an alleged employee of the “Sparkassensicherheitsagentur”.

69-year-old loses almost 10,000 euros due to fraud. Fraudsters have struck again in our district. According to initial findings, a 69-year-old from Prerow received a call from an alleged employee of the “Sparkassensicherheitsagentur” last Friday evening (February 25, 2022). He explained to him on the phone that someone wanted to debit a five-figure sum from his account without authorization and that the savings bank would now like to reduce his transfer limit and block the account. However, his TAN is required for this. The Prerower then entered the start code into his TAN generator and the transfer limit given to him, amounting to 9,800 euros, and gave the alleged savings bank employee his TAN. The fraudster then immediately ended the phone call and debited the 9,800 euros. In a subsequent conversation with his son and a call to the savings bank, the 69-year-old discovered the fraud. A return transfer was no longer possible. ( Source )


Attempted fraud by fake Microsoft employees

On Saturday afternoon there was an attempted telephone fraud by fake Microsoft employees in Rödersheim-Gronau: The 67-year-old victim spoke on the phone to both an unknown man and an unknown woman who had pretended to work for Microsoft in broken English . When they finally requested remote access to the called party's computer, the caller ended the conversation before any damage occurred. ( Source )

 


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