Overview
- Germany’s financial regulator warns of more than 100 WhatsApp case clusters tied to identity misuse, including groups posing as FPM Frankfurt Performance Management and pushing the fake “FPM MIN” app.
- Police in the Zwickau region report 13 trick‑fraud cases this year with about €280,000 stolen, as callers spoof bank numbers, claim fake “suspicious withdrawals,” and push victims to share TANs or grant remote PC access.
- Consumer watchdogs and banks report fresh phishing waves that copy Volksbank and Sparkasse designs, with emails or texts steering users to look‑alike login pages that harvest passwords and TANs.
- Police in Dillingen detail a marketplace scam where buyers approach sellers, switch to email, send a bogus platform message, then route targets to counterfeit bank pages to capture PIN and TAN for transfers.
- As tactics evolve with voice cloning and ping‑calls, banks deploy recipient‑name checks on transfers to flag IBAN mismatches, yet fast reporting to the bank and police still drives the odds of getting money back.