{"id":598188,"date":"2026-11-03T17:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=598188"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:06:23","slug":"unknown-man-scams-germany-resident-by-exchanging-old-belarusian-rubles-for-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/unknown-man-scams-germany-resident-by-exchanging-old-belarusian-rubles-for-euros","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Man Scams Germany Resident by Exchanging Old Belarusian Rubles for Euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>An unknown man scammed a local resident in Mainz, Germany, by exchanging 2,000 old Belarusian rubles for 500 euros.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presseportal.de\/blaulicht\/pm\/117708\/6383035\">police<\/a>, on the evening of November 2, the stranger approached a man who was leaving a supermarket in the Neustadt district. He said he urgently needed money to return to Belarus and offered to exchange Belarusian rubles for euros.<\/p>\n<p>The stranger handed the man four 500-ruble banknotes and claimed they were worth a total of 600 euros. The victim checked the exchange rate on Google and agreed to the deal. He got into the stranger&#8217;s car, travelled to the nearest bank, withdrew 500 euros and handed the money to the man. The stranger then gave him a chain, claiming it was made of gold.<\/p>\n<p>The victim later discovered that he had received 2,000 non-denominated Belarusian rubles, equivalent to 20 kopecks, in exchange for 500 euros. The authenticity of the chain also raised doubts.<\/p>\n<p>Police are searching for the suspect. He is known to have been travelling in a BMW X6. A woman and a child were also in the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown man scammed a local resident in Mainz, Germany, by exchanging 2,000 old Belarusian rubles for 500 euros. According to police, on the evening of November 2, the stranger approached a man who was leaving a supermarket in the Neustadt district. He said he urgently needed money to return to Belarus and offered to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":598189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6aea1493be8fb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Unknown Man Scams Germany Resident by Exchanging Old Belarusian Rubles for Euros"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,142373,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-germany","category-world","category-incident"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598190,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598188\/revisions\/598190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}