Sömmerda (dpa/th) – Two men have lost thousands of euros to internet scammers. A 46-year-old from Sömma wanted to invest in cryptocurrencies in the past few days and transferred a four-digit amount to the money of an “ominous trading company,” the police said on Thursday. The perpetrators also took out a loan of around EUR 70,000 on behalf of the victim and reinvested it in an online currency.
On Wednesday, a 54-year-old turned to the police: the man from the Sömmerda district initially invested 500 euros in Bitcoin. A trading company faked an alleged profit to gain access to his computer. The fraudsters booked more than 13,000 euros on foreign accounts via remote access. The criminal police are investigating.
