190,000 euros gone!

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He wanted to increase his savings - now they're gone! A man (83) from Salzburg fell for a cryptocurrency scam.

An 83-year-old man became aware of a supposed platform for cryptocurrency investments through a newspaper advertisement. He then contacted the company by telephone, but it was not crypto experts but fraudsters.

On the advice of the platform's supposed experts, a cryptocurrency account was opened, but the victim himself had no access to it. The man made several transfers to this foreign account between February and April.

The senior citizen only became skeptical when a requested payout was delayed. The man transferred a total of almost 190,000 euros.