On October 2, 2023, a young woman filed a complaint at the Nancy police station (Meurthe-et-Moselle), claiming to be the victim of a scam on her bank account in Villers-sur-Mer (Calvados). She had received a phone call from a woman introducing herself as an employee of her bank and informing her of an attempted fraud on her account. She asked him to confirm her personal information. Then, €1,829 in funds and two transfers, for a total of €5,670, disappeared from her accounts.
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The investigation led to a 24-year-old man who allegedly opened a Fortuneo account on August 14, 2023. He denied being the holder of this account during his hearing in February 2024. He says he does not know where this money is and admits to having a debt of €6,500.
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Postponed to 2025
The victim is claiming €7,500.60 for the three fraudulent withdrawals from her account and €120 in travel expenses to attend the hearing. For the prosecutor, If piracy is a scourge, there is not enough evidence
to be sure that the defendant, absent from the Lisieux court on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, is the perpetrator of the fraud. The court chose to reclassify the facts as receiving stolen goods and to adjourn this case to March 11, 2025.
