Early this AM (Wed) here in my local state of Hessen....cops were active on 'raids'.
From what the local HR (public TV in the Hessen state) reporting....there's around 27 homes/apartments being searched this morning, with a hefty number of cops involved in the operation.
What this leads to? Well....Ebay.
These 'punk' kids (cops won't say the ages, but it appears to be mostly in the 15 to 18 year old range) were setting up sales on Ebay, but didn't have the property to send. Buyers were screwed via Paypal, and the amount discussed within the 'club' were 600 cases of fraud. Cops figure a minimum of 200,000 Euro was involved.
What was being marketed? Mostly all electronic gear....gamer computers, etc.
So all part of one gang (27 members)? That's the suggestion by the cops.
I can imagine the parents sitting there, and asking questions....wondering where they got this stupid idea, and then wondering where the lawyer help will come from? This will get real complicated. And where the 200,000 Euro is today? Unknown.
My humble guess is that they figured that they could use some internet shop with anonymous names....walk in and create fake Ebay accounts, and then route the money to Paypal and then onto some non-German accounts (like in Turkey or Greece).
This whole thing is centered around the north part of town.
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