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Police: Fraudsters posing as victims' children extort €70,000
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Finnish police complete preliminary investigation into suspected text message scam.
The main suspect, a 25-year-old , and an unspecified number of accomplices sent 13,000 text messages.
The fraudsters, posing as the victims' children, asked that up to a few thousand euros be transferred.
In total, investigators believe people lost about 67,000 euros to the scam.
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