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Beware of job scamming! – Police warn of scams; Tires were flattened on two trailers; Burglary in building materials trade and more
Offenbach (ots) –
Offenbach and Main-Kinzig areas
Beware of job scamming! – Police warn of scams
The fact that fraudsters also repeatedly use resourceful methods to get money is shown by a phenomenon called “job scamming”, which is currently increasingly preoccupying the responsible criminal investigators in the police headquarters in south-east Hesse. The crooks create fake job advertisements on the Internet, mainly on job or Internet sales portals. Here, with supposedly very good pay, a job with free time management and the prospect of a home office is often feigned. In many cases, the perpetrators initially pay a small amount of money to lure the victims – thus luring a large number of potential victims. Victims are usually offered to work as testers of banking apps or have to go through a selection process, which usually takes place online. In both cases, the perpetrators persuade the victims to disclose personal data and pictures via video identification procedures, which the scammers use to open real bank or bitcoin accounts in the names of the victims.
The victims are then asked to forward the account opening documents (PIN/TAN, etc.) that were sent to the perpetrators. The forwarding of the documents is supposed to serve to close the accounts opened by the “employer” after successful testing. The perpetrators change the online access data for the accounts immediately after receiving the documents, so that the victims have no access to the account(s) from this point in time .have the opened accounts. In some cases, accounts are already opened by the perpetrators with the name of the applicant, but with incorrect contact details. This means that the perpetrators can access the account as soon as the applicant opens it. And this is where the sophisticated fraud continues: The accounts are now used for payments from other criminal activities, such as goods fraud. The perpetrators offer high-quality goods on the Internet, such as smartphones or garden tools, cheap as fake offers. If a third party buys the supposedly cheap offer and transfers the money to the previously opened account, the money is gone – it is immediately forwarded to other accounts abroad. In most cases, the entire communication between perpetrators and victims takes place via messenger services The victims are usually only informed about the fraud weeks or months later, for example when a victim of goods fraud reports or the district court reports that the account has been seized. Then the victims even face trouble because of suspected money laundering.
This is what happened to a 42-year-old from the Maintal area, who had opened an account with an online bank against payment and submission of personal data and used it to transfer money from suspected fraudulent transactions – until the bank reported it. The 42-year-old had no access to the account he believed from the start.
A 28-year-old man from the district of Offenbach, who accepted an alleged app testing job on the Internet to increase his salary, was also taken in by the crooks. He also had to confirm his identity with an identification program. The alleged company pages on the Internet looked serious to the job seeker, so he did not become suspicious. He had carried out this procedure at a total of three banks. The accounts were then misused by the perpetrators for goods fraud. The “job seeker” only found out about the scam when the police received reports.
The police therefore advise:
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Within an application process, an account opening via video identification process should be rejected in any case.
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If such a procedure has already taken place, the account should be blocked immediately.
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Back up chat histories and in any case file a criminal complaint with the police if you have transmitted your data to a stranger.
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Offenbach area
- Tires were flattened on two trailers – Offenbach
(aa) Between Tuesday, 7.30 p.m. and Wednesday, 4 p.m., unknown persons punctured tires on two parked trailers on Dietzenbacher Straße. The trailers were at number 135. The perpetrator or perpetrators punctured the two tires on the right side. The officials of the regional investigation group in Offenbach ask for information on 069 8098-5100.
- Who saw that accident in the hardware store parking lot? – Rodgau/Dudenhofen
(aa) After visiting a hardware store on Thursday afternoon on Hegelstrasse, a 49-year-old woman found her Mercedes damaged around 4:50 p.m. The Rodgauerin had parked the black 300C in the parking lot of the hardware store twenty minutes earlier. An unknown vehicle had hit the front right fender and bumper. However, the polluter did not take care of the damage of around 3,000 euros and drove away. The escape investigators rely on the fact that other customers have observed the incident and ask these witnesses to call 06183 91155-0.
- Violent collision in parking lot – Neu-Isenburg
(aa) A road user reported an accident with “violent impact and torn tires” on Thursday evening at Dreiherrnsteinplatz. Two cars collided in a supermarket parking lot just before 6:30 p.m. A 32-year-old had reversed his Mercedes out of a parking bay and collided with the passing Jaguar of a 24-year-old. The 32-year-old then complained of neck and back pain. The cars of the two people from Neu-Isenburg suffered damage of around 16,000 euros, with the rear right axle of the Jaguar breaking and a wheel torn out.
Main-Kinzig area
- Burglary in building materials trade – Bad Soden-Salmünster/Romsthal
(jm) Burglars broke into a building materials store on Huttentalstraße from Wednesday to Thursday. Between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., the strangers forced their way into the store. Lever marks were found on several windows and doors. The perpetrators ransacked all the office cabinets and took a safe containing cash, among other things. The thieves also stole a number of items from the display. According to initial investigations, two slim men were busy in the store. Both were dressed alike (olive green jacket, dark jeans and dark shoes). They each wore a balaclava. The Kripo Hanau asks residents and passers-by who have made observations to call 06181 100-123.
Offenbach, July 8, 2022, Press Office, Thomas Leipold
This report was sent on July 8th, 2022, 7:14 a.m. by the police headquarters in Southeast Hesse.
Criminal statistics on home burglary in the district of Frankfurt am Main
According to police crime statistics (PKS) from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), in the district Frankfurt am Main in the year 2020 all in all 1041 crimes recorded in connection with home burglary, with 47.2% of the cases being attempted crimes. the clearance rate was included in 2020 10%. Among the 101 suspects were 14 women and 87 men. 60.4% of the persons are suspects of non-German origin.
| Alter | number of suspects |
|---|---|
| under 21 | 10 |
| 21 bis 25 | 4 |
| 25 bis 30 | 15 |
| 30 bis 40 | 42 |
| 40 bis 50 | 17 |
| 50 bis 60 | 11 |
| over 60 | 2 |
For the year 2019, the police crime statistics of the BKA announced 1072 cases of burglary in the district of Frankfurt am Main, the clear-up rate here was 11.1%.
Accident statistics and casualties in road traffic over the last 3 years
In the state Hesse there was a year 2020 of a total of 17,407 road accidents involving personal injury 205 fatalities and 22,352 injured. There has been a slight downward trend in the traffic accidents recorded by the police throughout Germany in recent years. In 2020, a total of 2,245,245 accidents occurred in road traffic 2,685,661 cases in 2019 and 2,636,468 cases in 2018. This trend can also be observed in the number of accidents involving personal injury. In 2020, for example, there were 264,499 accidents in which people were injured, and a total of 3,046 people were killed. In 2018, 3,275 fatalities were recorded out of 308,721 accidents involving personal injury.
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