Overview
- Monitoring services report callers increasingly arrive with personal details such as names, addresses and birthdates, which has led some victims to share bank data under pressure.
- The Federal Network Agency warns of robocalls posing as PayPal that tell recipients to press a key, then route them to call centers and phishing links.
- Complaint volumes have risen, and authorities advise not answering or returning unknown international numbers, blocking suspicious callers, and filing reports via official forms.
- Lotto Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern says it never phones private customers to request sensitive data, as police in the state note a lack of formal complaints and ask victims to come forward.
- Clever Dialer and tellows highlight recurring clusters from Düsseldorf landlines and Dutch mobile numbers, with published lists helping users identify frequently abused lines.