Cops prevented crims from bilking victims out of more than €10m - but couldn't stop crime against art
A Europol-led operation dubbed “Pandora” has shut down a dozen phone scam centers, and arrested 21 suspects. The cops reckon the action prevented criminals from bilking victims out of more than €10 million .
Operation Pandora began in December 2023, when a customer asked a teller in Freiburg to withdraw more than €100,000 in cash. This request concerned the bank worker, who soon learned the customer had fallen for a fake police scam. Investigators then probed the victim's phone and discovered"that the telephone numbers used by the perpetrators could be linked to over 28,000 scam calls in only 48 hours," according to
Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police officers had to set up a call center of their own so that they could contact potential victims, warning more than 80 percent of them. The cops estimate over the next four months they saved people over €10 million , intercepted over 80 percent of the scam calls, and recorded over 7,500 calls so they could get a warrant for the raids.
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