Bavaria’s Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich (CSU) warns of a rapidly spreading scam by cybercriminals – the “trading scam”, a mixture of marriage fraud and investment fraud. “The perpetrators speak contemptuously of pig slaughtering,” said Eisenreich, of “pig butchering,” as it is called in English. The minister explained at a press conference on Wednesday that the “trading scam” is a global phenomenon that occurred during the corona pandemic: 370 cases of this internet fraud have already been reported in Bavaria since 2021; The damage amounts to 29 million euros, an average of 80,000 euros.
Munich: Lost an average of 80,000 euros – which fraud the Bavarian judiciary is warning about – Munich
