Dutch police (politie.nl, 21 October 2026) said Rotterdam's Team Cybercrime arrested two men, aged 23 from Vaassen and 25 from Ede, on 6 October in an investigation led by the Public Prosecution Service into a new form of bank-helpdesk fraud.

According to the police, victims received calls playing AI-generated voice clips about suspicious activity on their account; those who pressed 1 were put through to a fake bank employee who pressured them to download an app and hold their bank card to their phone to 'block' it. The app relayed the card's NFC chip data to an accomplice standing at an ATM, who withdrew thousands of euros. In the three weeks the team had sight of the group's servers, police saw about 170 victims and about €380,000 in losses, with victims of all ages from across the Netherlands.

Police had the servers taken offline. The 23-year-old is suspected of being the technical lead, the other of a coordinating role; on 20 October a Rotterdam court ordered them held for at least 90 more days.

Security Affairs reported the case on 26 Oct.