Overview
- A 48-year-old in Tyrol transferred more than €100,000 in cryptocurrency over two years after repeated marriage promises from a fraudster.
- Police in Innsbruck-Land say the victim communicated via messaging platforms and the perpetrator's identity remains unknown as investigations proceed.
- In Sömmerda, Thuringia, a 59-year-old sent €2,000 and various gift cards after contact via social media with someone posing as a U.S. soldier on deployment.
- The impostor in the German case claimed he needed money for a certificate to return to the United States, and the victim filed a report only after further demands.
- Authorities describe the pattern as love scamming that uses fake profiles to build emotional bonds, with no arrests reported in these two incidents.