Overview
- Officers searched apartments in Berlin-Tempelhof and sites in Brandenburg after court-approved warrants.
- Police report seizing a SIM-farm along with large quantities of SIM cards, phones, tablets, and computers.
- The scheme relied on SMS and chat messages posing as delivery issues or bank confirmations that funneled victims to counterfeit websites to harvest data.
- Kriminalpolizei Paderborn applied for the search warrants and participated in the coordinated operation.
- Authorities published photos showing seized evidence being loaded into a truck, and the investigation remains active.