police station officer donauworth The start of the year was not good news, as the number of online scams reported remains high in the first few weeks of the new year.

As an example, a 40-year-old man informed authorities on Tuesday that a previously unidentified person had access to his PayPal account – a payment service on the Internet. According to police This happened to Weimdinger when about 1500 euros was debited from his account for the delivery of goods to an address in Lower Saxony.

A 34-year-old also indicated on Tuesday that an unidentified person had infiltrated his game console’s Xbox account and ordered only video games and expansion packages for less than 100 euros. The account of Baumenheimer’s wife, whom the stranger apparently also knew, served as the billing address.

In all reported cases, Donworth officials launched a criminal investigation. (The)