Up to Seven Years in Prison for Online Scammers

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Three Dutch twenty-somethings have been sentenced to prison terms of three to seven years for online and telephone fraud. They managed to swindle their victims out of hundreds of thousands of euros, for example by posing as bank employees. In late 2024, the police arrested a group of Dutch and Belgian suspects. Some of them flaunted their luxurious lifestyles on social media, which they were able to afford by defrauding people on a large scale. …

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The Landgericht Gießen has sentenced one of the operators of "Crimenetwork" to almost eight years imprisonment. The case throws a spotlight on criminal online platforms.

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On "Crimenetwork" drugs, data and criminal services were traded - even instructions for crimes. A man from Wetterau has now been sentenced to seven years and ten months in prison - in court he showed remorse.