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Kiel (dpa / lno) - Fraudsters in Germany increasingly want to
cash in
with fake court cost invoices for commercial register
matters.
Cases also increased in Schleswig-Holstein, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice on Friday.
In the Lübeck area alone there have been six cases since the beginning of the year.
According to the ministry, this affects companies and associations that have initiated an entry in the commercial register.
In previously known cases, abbreviations such as ARO, IGT, RLG or SZR were specified as the payee in connection with an IBAN number that begins with LV and indicates a bank account in Latvia.
Incorrect invoices with DE (Germany) and CZ (Czech Republic) at the beginning of the IBAN number have also appeared.
The supposedly official invoices are usually sent in letters similar to the authorities and contain the request to pay a fee for the publication of company-relevant data.
Since legal remedies and current phone numbers of the responsible local court may also be listed in some cases, the ministry says that the invoices cannot easily be recognized as falsified.
The department emphasized that in all legal proceedings, cost accounts are always settled through the state treasury.
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