This has become expensive: A young man was cheated out of his money when buying a smartphone. The police are involved.

Rip-off - expensive cell phone not delivered : An 18-year-old victim from Einbeck purchases an iPhone 11 for 1,265 euros via the EBAY classifieds platform. After the auction, the injured party transfers the money unsecured to the account of the unknown provider. The cell phone has not been delivered to date and the provider has no longer been available since the money was transferred.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case, as (more or less) imaginative cases of fraud occur again and again, especially when purchasing smartphones privately. Because not every online purchase ends up being a good one; some buyers ended up getting a product, but it turned out to be a dummy. Like the following case:

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The police reported that a man in Giengen was approached in a parking lot asking if he wanted a smartphone at a good price.

The suspected fraudster offered him a smartphone to buy for a few hundred euros. The new price of the device is said to be in the four-digit range. He gambled away his money in a casino, which is why he wanted to sell the cell phone.

The 21-year-old gave the money to the suspect. He later noticed that the device looked real, but the buttons had no function. Now the police are investigating an adolescent. She warns against buying supposed “bargains”.

But rip-offs can be even more creative:

a very special smartphone purchase when he bought a smartphone at a flea market, but there was a floor tile in the packaging. In the standard you can find out about it:

A buyer at a flea market in Vienna-Simmering paid for a cell phone but received a floor tile on Sunday. Shortly after the purchase, the man discovered that a tile had been packed instead of his new smartphone.

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An isolated case?

No. The rip-off with the stones happened again:

The Bonn police registered a brazen scam in the area of ​​Immenburgstrasse in Bonn's Weststadt on March 4, 2016:

At around 8:15 p.m., a 23-year-old who was walking with an acquaintance in the Immenburgstrasse area was approached by two previously unknown male people. The strangers showed the 23-year-old two apparently unused smartphones of the latest generation and offered him the two devices for sale for a total of 400 euros. The young man agreed and first went with his friend to his car, which was parked nearby, to get the requested amount of cash, which he then handed over to the two cell phone sellers. In return, the 23-year-old received the two supposed smartphones, each of which was put in a leather case, and then went back to his vehicle with his friend. When he wanted to inspect the smartphones he had just purchased, he noticed that there were only stones in the two cell phone cases


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