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German newspaper article on romance scams

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:41 pm
by FrumpyBB
Ostsee-Zeitung, April 10, 2015
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Rough and quick summary:
Romance scams are on the rise. A typical local victim´s story (UN-soldier on Facebook, [four-, or five-, can´t read it, the left border is cut] figure-amount lost to recipients in Ghana). Policeman in Hamburg "specialized in romance scams" says "70 reports to us per year". How scams work, who does these things and what to do is explained towards the end and on the side column and are basically identical to what we say here :)
Thanks to IceFM for scanning.

Re: German newspaper article on romance scams

Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:54 pm
by coolbreeze1975
Is there an English version. My heritage is German, but my grandfather was the last to read/speak it.

Ciao

J

Re: German newspaper article on romance scams

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:50 am
by FrumpyBB
Normalyl I´d have done that but sorry, it´s a bit too long ;) the info therein is one "case" and much very correct ("standard") FAQ-material - maybe someone wishes to volunteer on translating this one ;)

Or can you try photograph the extended jpg with Android app "Google translate", it is supposed to do right this :)

Re: German newspaper article on romance scams

Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:45 pm
by coolbreeze1975
Thanks F. Will try that. Now if I knew someone with an Android!!! :D

Re: German newspaper article on romance scams

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:49 pm
by IceFM
The same article was yesterday here once more in a other newspaper from us...... I had to split it in the middle coz of scan... was one Page and in a bigger size as the first article

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