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The scam in the foreign exchange, also known as "rip deal", a foreign exchange transaction is fraudulent. In general, the crooks are looking for potential victims through advertisements on the Internet or in newspapers and specialized magazines and then contact by phone or e-mail. Ads can cover a variety of fields: real estate, vehicles, horses, watches, jewelry, art, etc.., Or takeovers of companies or firms or participation in them.

Recommendations if you are concerned:

* When the operation is completed, the victims of the scam usually return to Switzerland with counterfeit money. Victims should immediately complain to the police station nearest you, if possible, where the operation took place, or at the latest on their return. Warning: there is crime of money laundering if the victim has received an allowance.


Tips and tricks to guard against such cases:

# As a precaution, the scam takes place as far as possible abroad. In cases of "rip deal", the scammers usually hold a first meeting with their future victim in northern Italy (Milan, Turin), France, Benelux and Spain.

# What strikes during the first interview is that the crooks are not interested or just to be mentioned in the advertisement, such as selling a home, but they skillfully steer the conversation to issues of foreign exchange or cash transactions. When proposing to visit the house, they usually decline the offer. The crooks lure their victims in luxurious grand hotels by offering very favorable terms for transactions such as foreign exchange transactions involving 30 000 CHF with a gain of up to 30%. For this "first attempt", the authors use real cuts. Some time later, the victim provides a new operation that involves both the money much higher. Generally, the authors propose Swiss francs against euro, or vice versa, and in rare cases also in exchange for dollars. The scammer says that money from the transaction, allegedly "bad" for him, comes from illegally acquired currency. If the victim accepts the supposedly lucrative operation, we then extort money in various ways, usually are several hundred thousand francs, sometimes the amounts reaching millions.

# The perpetrators show a vivid imagination. They may be given false coins, or notes called facsimile, exchange clever bags containing money, wads of paper containing some real bank notes, to the simple scam robbery, etc.. It is very striking to see how criminals can be violent. Thus, during a reset operation of money, a suspicious victim was simply shot. In the first phase of a "rip deal", we can not know whether the transaction will result in a mere delivery of counterfeit money or pieces of paper, or if it is truly a money laundering operation of money.

# The authors are mainly Travellers original Serbo-Croatian (Roma). They travel mostly in Italy and France. Only a minority is sedentary. They often use Jewish-sounding names, Italian or Arabic. The use of academic titles is also common (Dr. Morgenstern, Dr. Granello, etc.).. Sometimes they are also posing as Arab sheiks. They operate in groups, in different compositions. Often, the people behind the first authors who initiate contact operations are not present at the handing over of money.

# The criminals know that under Italian law, counterfeiting is not punishable if the counterfeits are marked "facsimile" or other similar wording. The operation completed, the victim has in its possession, in the best case, the number of mobile phone prepaid card and a fake name and, therefore, has no clue on the plausible identity of the scammer. Because of the various interdependencies in international criminal prosecution of perpetrators is extremely difficult and can only be done through, laborious, mutual legal assistance. The determination of the forum can be, in itself, a race of legal obstacles.