Overview
- Slovak police raided a Poprad apartment on November 14 after a German-led probe, identifying it as a call centre for phone scams targeting older people in Germany.
- Eight adults — three German and five Polish nationals — were detained, four children were found on site, and a judge in Prešov issued arrest warrants.
- Officers seized recordings, laptops, mobile phones and numerous SIM cards despite suspects trying to destroy devices by smashing them and throwing phones from the building.
- Investigators monitored roughly 1,000 calls into the German fixed network over three afternoons and say several planned frauds and handovers were prevented.
- Local alerts continue: police reported multiple failed attempts in Salgen (November 24) and Woringen (November 25), while a victim in Durach handed over jewelry and a five-figure sum on November 26, with Kempten police seeking witnesses to the pickup.