I got a weird Text and I have no idea whats this about, is it just another scam or the real thing? Does anyone have any idea?

by Zvirkec058

7 comments

  1. You will never get stuff like that per text, you will always get physical mail when it’s legitimate.

  3. Nah, you are in germany. We are far, far removed from stuff like this being digital.

    If ever there will be someone wanting to seize your property one way or another, they will have to send you notifications in paper form, usually in a fancy formal yellow envelope. So no, this is very certainly scam.

    They want you to get scared, contact them, and then will talk you into making payments to stop some scammy court case that isn’t a thing.

  4. No German authority will send you a SMS like that. Block them and delete it. Anything official will come by physical mail in this country.

  6. im kinda suprised that ppl still believe that those msg could be a real official institut or something like that.

  7. Adding to the other answers: A proper record number/reference of German justice won’t look like that. The format is “Number Letters Number/Number”, for example 17 O 38/24. The letter(s) mean the type of department (for example which type of court), the number before is a counter for them, after the letters is a running number for the year and the actual year (the example would be the 38th case of 2024). See [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktenzeichen_(Deutschland)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktenzeichen_(Deutschland))

    There is also no such thing as a “Pfändungsgericht”. Such cases are handled by the Amtsgericht.

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