Fraud

Black Friday

28.November 2025 NM

Black Friday in Serbia: A good opportunity for shopping or a scam?

Although sellers in Serbia emphasize "Black Friday" as the day of the biggest discounts and lowest prices, this is often not the case at all. Amendments to the Law on Consumers should suppress this practice

Organized crime

30.September 2025 IN THE

BIRN: How call centers from Belgrade robbed 70.000 people around the world

Four Belgrade call centers defrauded victims in Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, as well as in Australia and Canada, according to an investigation by BIRN and Investigate Europe

15.November 2024 MS

RTS: The excursion organizer deceived parents from several schools in the same way

A year ago, Zorana Šijan Oborina and about forty other parents of students of the First Belgrade High School accepted an offer for the children to travel to Paris for the May Day holidays.

Montenegro

19.August 2024 B. B.

Podgorica: Arrested Polish "patron" suspected of fraud involving millions in cryptocurrencies

Roman Zimian, together with Stefan Morgenstern, is the founder and owner of the "Future net" fund, which deals in digital and cryptocurrency trading. On his website, Zimian presents himself as a "Polish driver, protector of children and patron of music and art." He was arrested in Podgorica on the basis of an international warrant

Chronicle

04.July 2024 B. B.

Growth hormone worth millions: Arrested doctor and alleged patient

In Kraljevo, the police arrested a doctor who prescribed 4.149 packages of somatropin to an alleged patient. And the patient was arrested. It is not the first time that this expensive drug has been fraudulently obtained

One of the improvised call centers in Serbia where the raid was carried out

Criminal

05.May 2024. Dijana Roscic (DW)

How a banker from Freiburg "broke" a gang of fraudsters from Serbia

About twenty people in Europe have been arrested as part of a criminal network that defrauded people through call centers. Most of those arrested were in Serbia. And it all started when a pensioner in Freiburg came to the bank to withdraw more than 100.000 euros in cash...

Earned about 10 million euros

02.May 2024. IN THE

14 people were arrested in Serbia for defrauding German citizens through "call centers".

A criminal group suspected of defrauding many German citizens through "call centers" was arrested. The local media write that 20 people have been arrested in several Balkan states for this fraud

The Internet and the Dark Web

14.march 2024 SZ

How a multi-million dollar fraud was perpetrated on the online drug market

The latest multimillion-dollar scam on the "Dark Web" - the administrators of the "online" market for the sale of illegal goods (mainly drugs) blackmail users into publishing compromising information about them, if they do not pay a ransom. The blackmailed cannot count on the help of the police, considering that they themselves are involved in illegal activities

MUP warns

12.march 2024 IN THE

A new SMS fraud - the goal is to steal personal and sensitive data

These are "phishing" messages whose goal is to steal personal and sensitive data in order to obtain illegal property benefits, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated in a post on social networks.

Election 2023.

24.October 2023 MJ

Pre-election games with the number of voters in Serbia can begin

Director of the Center for Local Self-Government, Nikola Jovanović, stated that since July 23, the number of voters in Vračar increased by 460, in Zemun by 464, in Zvezdara by 490, and in Palilula by 693.

SAD

19.September 2023 JH

Consumers are suing Starbucks for five million dollars

'Mango Lemonade' Without Mango, 'Passionate Lemonade' Without Passion Fruit: Customers in New York and California sued Starbucks for deception, and a Manhattan district judge accepted their claim

Food industry

11.September 2023 Z.S.

How food manufacturers cheat customers

Household budgets are shrinking, and the profits of retail chains are rising. As they look for reasonably priced goods to meet their basic needs, more and more shoppers feel that food companies are trying to rip them off. Among the numerous tricks, the latest phenomena of "shrinkflation" and "skimpflation" stood out.

The World

08.September 2023 MJ

"Cryptocurrency boss" Faruk Fatih Ozer sentenced to 11.196 years in prison in Turkey for fraud

In 2021, Ozer fled to Albania with investors' money after his cryptocurrency exchange Todex suddenly collapsed

SAD

13.June 2023 Z.S.

Brazen fraud: Billions of dollars stolen from the relief fund during the covid-19 pandemic

Fraudsters used the Social Security numbers of deceased people and inmates to cash unemployment checks. They potentially embezzled more than $280 billion from covid funds, while another $123 billion was wasted or misspent

Cybercrime

24.April 2023. I.Đ.

Beware of the "pig slaughterer": A new fraud on social networks has also arrived in Serbia

The victim's trust is gained through simple chats and liking posts, and when she regains consciousness, she realizes that she is left without money or all her property.