Guides on online fraud
Does an email, a text or a call look off? Here you can read how the scams work, how to spot them and what to do if it has already happened. Every guide lists its sources and when they were checked.
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Phishing emails: how to spot, check and report them
An email wants your data or your money. How to check the sender, link and attachment, where to forward the email, and what to do after a click or a password entry.
Read the guideTexts and messengers
Check a message
Phone
Check a number
Money and accounts
Check an IBAN
Crypto platform will not pay out: warning signs, checks, recovery scamsThe chart keeps rising, but the withdrawal fails over a fee. How to recognise a trading platform that never pays out, what to look up in the BaFin database, what to document and why recovery agents are usually the second scam.
New bank details on an invoice: ask first, then transferThe invoice arrives as usual, only the IBAN is new. What your bank’s payee check covers, what it does not, and which steps help before you transfer.
How these guides are made
Every figure and rule in the text comes from a named source: police, the Federal Network Agency, BaFin, BSI, consumer advice centres, the ECB or the statute itself. Sample messages are recreated and only use addresses ending in .example. For online shops there is our sister service fakeshop.ai.