Overview
- In Munich, three separate scams within hours targeted seniors using a fake doctor plea, a phony police bail demand and bogus installers, netting about €170,000.
- In Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg, an 84-year-old alerted real officers, leading LKA plainclothes teams to arrest suspects aged 16, 17 and 25 during a planned cash pickup.
- In West Saxony, a caller posing as a security employee gained remote access via a link and QR codes, triggering transfers of roughly €15,000 from a senior’s account.
- A Lößnitz resident who scanned a QR code from a forged bank notice lost around €20,000 before the account was blocked, according to police.
- Separate marketplace phishing cases saw €1,950 withdrawn from a Bad Berka seller to a foreign account and about €950 taken from a Tettau victim after a fake platform email, while Austrian police in Krems reported similar phone-impostor scams targeting pensioners.