Overview
- The coordinated operation ran from September 15 to October 31 under the Berlin Landeskriminalamt with the BKA, Europol, all 16 German states, and partners in Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia, and Czechia.
- Authorities report 44 attempted scams were thwarted, preventing an estimated €2,007,330 in victim losses.
- Three suspected call centers were taken offline in Frankfurt am Main, Warsaw, and Vienna, disrupting infrastructure used to place cross-border scam calls.
- Sixteen suspects were detained, including four alleged callers and twelve money collectors aged 22 to 63, with three Polish suspects placed in pre-trial detention.
- Searches seized laptops, mobile phones, cash, jewelry, and luxury watches worth about €94,000, as well as drugs, with investigations and prosecutions continuing.