The Prosecutor’s Office and the Interior Ministry have announced the launch of a large-scale national campaign against telephone scams, whose victims are, more often than not, elderly people.
At a meeting dedicated to the problem, Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev declared that this problem has always been approached in a piecemeal manner. Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov stated that what is needed is a systematic approach, good connections with foreign services and prevention.
In 2018 alone phone scammers defrauded victims of 4 million euro. Telephone scams first appeared in Bulgaria in the late 1990s, their numbers soaring after 2005.
During the next 24 hours, it will remain mostly cloudy. There will also be rainfall with thunder, significant in places, mainly in the mountainous regions, and weak around the Danube. In the evening, precipitation will stop from the north. The minimum..
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For the first time Bulgaria has a specific deadline for joining the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), caretaker Premier..
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The synoptic situation becomes more complicated next day . There will be short and at times heavy rain showers in the western part of Bulgaria during the..
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