Since December 2023, the FBI has received over 100 complaints from victims of financial fraud who say they were victimized again by scammers impersonating employees of the IC3.
Since the passage of the Victims of Crime Act in 1984, every state government has operated a Crime Victim Compensation fund that collects fines and redistributes them.
"It's the images that they've seen. The sounds of the car as it was coming towards them. The smells. Not being able to sleep. Basically, all of this is difficult for a person to grasp at first. In victim counseling, you have to try to absorb these feelings," Marco Vogler, the Catholic state police chaplain of Saxony-Anhalt, told DW.
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