Fraudsters have found a new way to defraud unsuspecting citizens by tricking them into giving away sensitive personal data, financial information, and even bank security codes through phone calls. According to the statement EL.AS., phone calls are made from landlines or mobile phones using a recorded message in English or Greek. Attackers, posing as police […]
The perpetrators pretended to be municipal employees handing out fruit for free and robbed the elderly. The gang, which systematically committed thefts from the homes of the elderly, was liquidated by the South-East Attica Police Department. The criminals approached the elderly, posing as municipal employees, and under the pretext of distributing free fruit, invaded their […]
Lately, various kinds of scams have flourished in Greece. Moreover, the activities of cunning malefactors are aimed not only at individuals, but also at enterprises. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Volos is attracting the attention of shopkeepers after discovering cases of fraud with social assistance coupons. In particular, some individuals call unsuspecting shop […]
Complaints about Church of the Nations and there is no end to exorcists. Dozens of new facts of fraud are revealed, and one of the victims of this sect has gone missing. According to police information, the authorities currently control the finances of the “Church of Nations”, where each “exorcism” wishing to get rid of […]
Unfortunately, our warnings about the activities of the infamous Alina Genovese do not always reach people and this scammer finds new victims. This time among the most vulnerable – refugees from Ukraine. As previously reported by Athens News a scammer was spotted on the island of Zakynthos among volunteerswho collect money, food, clothes and other […]
As Internet shopping and electronic transactions in general have continued to grow rapidly over the past three years globally and in Greece, fraud has increased both in absolute numbers and in the forms in which it manifests itself due to the emergence of the pandemic. Fraudsters are mainly focused on new ways to deceive citizens […]
On Mykonos, not only inadequate prices can empty the wallets of vacationers, but also numerous criminals who flock here in the season like flies for honey. The two young Italians, now in custody, have been stealing wallets and valuables from tourists in and out of beach bars. Their last victim was a businessman from Thessaloniki, […]
A Facebook scam could leave unsuspecting users without money. A new way to deceive Internet users is as follows. They receive messages from real contacts, friends on the social network. They ask to borrow a certain large amount of money at interest (supposedly they lost their bank card), reporting their data in electronic banking, writes […]
In Trikala, scammers managed to “extract” more than 15 thousand euros from an elderly couple, posing as employees ΔΕΗ. According to information trikalavoice, on Tuesday 2 August, there was a knock at the door of a house in the village of Pili municipality in Trikala. Fraudsters, posing as ΔΕΗ employees, convinced an elderly couple living […]
For another deception of citizens, warns EL.AΣ., the criminals use the data of the Secretary General for Public Order Konstantinos Tsouvalos. The email scam is that a citizen receives letterissued “by all the rules”, with the image of the (fake) Greek flag and logos of the Ministry of Citizens’ Protection and the Greek Police. EL.AS […]
The profit of a criminal organization, whose members have already been arrested in a police operationcontinuing from this morning in Corinth and Boeotia, exceeds 1.5 million euros. According to information cathimerini.grmembers of the organization engaged in fraud through the Internet, and among the victims are doctors and hotel owners. According to informed sources, members of […]
The scammers use the data of the head of the Greek police, as well as other officials of the police and the Ministry of Civil Protection, sending emails to extort money. The Greek Police warns that in recent days, recipients have been receiving letters signed allegedly by the chief of police, Lieutenant General Konstantinos Skumas, […]