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German man dresses up as older lady to help bust scam callers

NAMPA / DPA
2026-03-19
Munich (dpa) - A 21-year-old German man who realized he had been targeted by a fraud call resorted to unusual means to help bust the scammers. He developed a complex plot and pretended to be an older lady, even dressing up for a fake handover of bait he laid in his garden. The Bavarian man, based in the town of Ahorntal, received a call on Wednesday by someone pretending to be a prosecutor, police said. The caller told the young man that one of......
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