Lukáš Matoušek
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The woman came into contact with the alleged sailor via the Internet. The man promised her a safe with 350,000 euros, she only had to pay for the transport. She sent a total of 2.6 million, but the safe never arrived.
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A 44-year-old woman paid for her gullibility when she accepted a friend request on a social network in February 2023 from a man who introduced himself with a Czech name and surname. “She started communicating with him, and the man subsequently told her that he was a sailor who was stuck on a ship, saying that he had a safe with 350,000 euros in cash and a certificate for a barrel in Australia,” explained police spokeswoman Barbora Šmaterová. The man then promised the woman that if she paid for the transport of the safe, he would send it to the Czech Republic and she would be able to take whatever she wanted.
“Since last February, the woman has sent a total of 25 payments from her bank account through the exchange office to different numbers of different recipients in a total amount exceeding 2.6 million crowns. She sent the payments according to the instructions of the shipping company that was supposed to receive the shipment from the alleged sailor,” the spokeswoman continued . To this day, the woman has not received any package or message about it. “She reported the case to the police in Klatovy. They initiated criminal proceedings on suspicion of fraud and are investigating the case,” added Šmaterová.
Brutal beatings, insults, bans. A woman from Klatovsk experienced hell for a year and a half
