Hanau/Friedberg/Niddatal. The police and prosecutors have smashed an SMS and telephone fraud ring in Hanau and in the Wetteraukreis. A 23 -year -old man is now in custody, against six other alleged perpetrators would be determined for commercial gang frauds and money laundering, the police said. In at least 20 cases, the group is said to have brought people with so -called smishing (word creation from SMS and phishing) by tens of thousands of euros. The victims were often caused by damage in the five to six-digit range. The victim therefore received SMS notifications in which they were asked to update their bank details via a link. If the people followed the link, they came to a website that looks deceptively similar to that of their bank. There you should then enter the access data for your online banking – including a password. “In this way, the perpetrators receive access,” said the police in the message. The alleged perpetrators are said to have then prepared a transfer and called their victims. On the phone, according to the investigators, they pretended to be bank employees and said that the update of the data had happened too late, fraudsters had accessed the account. They continued to say that debit from the supposed fraudsters could only be stopped if the people gave them their tan, who were sent to the cell phone during online transfers. (dpa)
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