Crime

Duping Oma: what to know about the ‘Enkeltrick’ scam in Germany

After an elderly woman in a Saxony-Anhalt town received a phone call from a person claiming to be her grandchild at the weekend, she promptly withdrew €20,000 from her bank and handed it over to the criminals. Hundreds of pensioners across Germany fall for this crime each year.

elderly

Phone scammers callously exploiting vulnerable elderly

Criminals are becoming ever more creative when preying on old people through fraudulent telephone scams.

prostitution

Police warn punters over prostitute card scam

Police are warning punters in Hamburg's red light district to beware of prostitutes asking them to pay for sexual services with credit cards.

finance

Deutsche Bank workers accused in scam

German prosecutors have charged eight former and current Deutsche Bank employees with alleged evasion of taxes on trading carbon emission certificates, it was revealed on Thursday.

airport

Brit conman tricked rich women at airports

A 42-year-old British man, known in the media as “airport man” has been sentenced to ten months in jail and expulsion from Germany after years of conning rich women at airports into giving him money.

fake

All that glitters might be 'Autobahngold'...

Good Samaritan motorists pay the price as fraudsters target Germany's highways with a fake jewellery scam.