German and Austrian judicial authorities investigate an international gang that bets hundreds of thousands of investors with bogus financial millions bilked to have. The alleged head of the German.
Among the Affected are also thousands of German, the North German broadcasting (NDR) and the Saarländische Rundfunk (SR) on the basis of a common Research reports. The gang have international acts and their victims with the help of so-called Trading platforms hoodwinked. Users were able to betting about on share prices and currency fluctuations or crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin to trade.
Head of the gang was a German, reports, NDR and SR, citing the public Prosecutor’s office Saarbrücken, the procedure office of the public Prosecutor from Austria, run jointly with the Central Economy. The man and four other defendants were accused of professional band Scam. Alone in Saarbrücken, Germany 233 of the criminal charges in connection with the Trading are processed accordingly, platforms. The main accused seats in Vienna in custody, some of the accused are on the run. Victims were recruited according to the figures, specifically in social networks and an average of more than 40,000 euros cheated.
Searches in call centers
After logging in on the Scam pages, you were supposed consultants to allegedly “lucrative opportunities” or for the Deposit of money moved noted. Chat logs have been viewed journalists of the radio station reported. Your own call center have operated the group and from there over the phone under pressure. In Kosovo, a call centre a few weeks ago, had been searched. Further searches in Austria, Germany, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, quote, NDR and SR, the public Prosecutor’s office Saarbrücken.
Almost all the victims had lost all the deposited funds, it said. In some cases, alleged consultants were out of town all of a sudden, in other cases, the software had been error for the Non-payment of alleged winnings to be responsible. Whether on the platforms a trade with the money deposited was held, has yet to be determined.
More than 200,000 Affected in Germany alone
The main accused alone, the investigators expect the five platforms. In the customer data from these platforms, the data of more than 200,000 people from Germany, according to the. According to SR, and NDR, it is possible that the actual Dimension of the case is even greater: In the case of searches in the foreign countries provided evidence pointed to the fact that on the five platforms aging infrastructure could be at 387 other websites had been used.
bri/se (dpa, sr, ndr)