https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A pensioner from Carinthia has been conned out of around €2.3m after “investing” in fake shares for years. https://www.thelocal.at/20161006/pensioner-conned-out-of-millions-of-euros-in-fake-share-scam Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:23:07 +0200 pensioner-conned-out-of-millions-of-euros-in-fake-share-scam An observant taxi driver in Burgenland saved his 85 year-old-passenger from falling victim to a so-called ‘nephew’ scam on Wednesday afternoon after overhearing some suspicious phone calls. https://www.thelocal.at/20150820/taxi-driver-saves-pensioner-from-scam Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:06:35 +0200 taxi-driver-saves-pensioner-from-scam Dozens of men in Styria, in the southeast of Austria, have been blackmailed by an unknown woman who threatens to publish videos on the Internet showing the men engaged in sex acts. https://www.thelocal.at/20150513/skype-sex-scam-snares-men-in-styria Wed, 13 May 2015 13:07:43 +0200 skype-sex-scam-snares-men-in-styria An 82-year-old woman from Villach was tricked into giving a couple €900, after they said they needed to pay for urgent hospital treatment. As ‘security’ they left her with a handbag full of US dollars - which turned out to be photocopies. https://www.thelocal.at/20141127/pensioner-scammed-with-fake-dollar-bills Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:27:38 +0100 pensioner-scammed-with-fake-dollar-bills A conman who had offered a motor boat for sale via a classified selling website for €50,000 threatened the prospective buyer and his family with a gas pistol and fired two shots in Styria on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.at/20141027/armed-robber-lures-family-with-online-advert Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:44:12 +0100 armed-robber-lures-family-with-online-advert A 19-year-old Polish man has been arrested for attempting to carry out a 'nephew scam' in Linz, after the 74-year-old he was trying to con acted as a decoy for the police. https://www.thelocal.at/20141023/pensioner-acted-as-decoy-to-catch-conman Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:24:56 +0200 pensioner-acted-as-decoy-to-catch-conman A retired Austrian journalist who has been missing since the end of May is presumed dead, after losing large sums of money to a Nigerian ‘black money’ scam. https://www.thelocal.at/20140912/missing-journalist-fell-for-nigerian-scam Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:21:00 +0200 missing-journalist-fell-for-nigerian-scam Austrian police are warning elderly people to beware of a ‘nephew’ scam in which criminals call up victims and typically pretend to be a nephew or grandson who needs money for an emergency. https://www.thelocal.at/20140814/police-warn-of-nephew-scam Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:20:00 +0200 police-warn-of-nephew-scam Austria’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) is warning people of an internet scam in which crooks are posing as employees of the company Microsoft. https://www.thelocal.at/20140716/austrian-police-warn-of-microsoft-phone-scam Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:33:00 +0200 austrian-police-warn-of-microsoft-phone-scam Two men posing as police officers robbed three Romanians of thousands of euros in Upper Austria. https://www.thelocal.at/20140527/romanians-robbed-by-police-imposters Tue, 27 May 2014 14:30:13 +0200 romanians-robbed-by-police-imposters