Fraud: Private individual, Switzerland 2025
In 2023, a victim had lost 10'000 francs in an online investment fraud.
- Incident · 12.2025 · Switzerland
- Evidence: confirmed by an authority
- Fraud
- Deception (social engineering)
As of
What happened
Two years later, the fraudsters got in touch again and offered to recover the money for a fee of 22'000 francs, luring the victim with a supposed profit of 600'000 francs. In 2025, the NCSC had already counted 462 reports of this scam, after 91 in the previous year.
- Affected
- Private individual (anonymous)
- Industry
- Private individual
- Loss
- CHF 10'000
- Figure given by the source
- 10'000 francs lost; a further 22'000 francs demanded as a fee
- Business interruption
- unknown
- Ransom demanded / paid
- unknown / unknown
- Data affected
- unknown
- Bankruptcy
- no
- Entry point
- Contact by supposed helpers after earlier investment fraud (fake recovery scam)
What would cyber insurance have paid?
That depends on the terms. Whether those affected were insured: unknown.
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Hotline and advice before anything happens
Mostly no information 14 of 29 private products cover it fully, as an add-on or with limits.
Overview based on public policy terms, as of 06.11.2026. Only your policy and its general terms and conditions (GTC) are binding. No confirmation of cover.
What we can learn
Anyone who wants to recover lost money for a fee is the next fraudster.
Sources
- Wochenrückblick Woche 51: Angebliches Weihnachtswunder - Wenn Betrüger Ihre verlorenen Gelder wiederfinden (opens in a new window) Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit BACS (bis 2023: NCSC) · 23.12.2025
«So verlor ein Opfer bei einem Online-Anlagebetrug im Jahr 2023 10'000 CHF.»