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On Wednesday 24 December 2025, the Grand Ducal Police reported the arrest of two suspects in connection with "Luxtrust" Scams.

On the evening of Thursday 18 December 2025, police in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie were informed of a scam. According to initial information, an individual was contacted by someone claiming to be a Worldline employee and asked to confirm several transfers via the Luxtrust app. The victim was asked to transfer an unknown sum of money to the account of a suspected money mule to access the funds obtained through the scam.

Through the cooperation of several police units, the account holder was identified and apprehended. Officers searched his residence and seized his mobile phone. On the orders of the public prosecutor, he was arrested and brought before an investigating judge on Friday 19 December 2025.

On the evening of Sunday 21 December 2025, police in Esch-sur-Alzette received a report of a similar scam, with the estimated loss totalling nearly €20,000. During the investigation, a suspected money mule was identified and apprehended by a police patrol. On the orders of the public prosecutor, the suspect was arrested and brought before an investigating judge on the morning of Monday 22 December 2025.

The police recalled that money muling is a criminal offence. It is a money laundering technique in which perpetrators of crimes such as phishing use money mules to obtain the proceeds of their offences. Money mules receive money from a bank account that is not their own and transfer it to another account or withdraw it in cash, before passing it on to someone else for a commission.

Money mules are often young people or individuals in precarious financial situations who are recruited via social media and messaging platforms.

The police stressed that it is a criminal offence to provide access to one's bank account or bank card to a third party.

In addition to freezing bank accounts and seizing funds, individuals accused of money laundering can face one to five years in prison and fines ranging from €1,250 to €1,250,000. If the assets cannot be recovered, confiscation can be applied to other assets of the convicted person up to the value of the assets transferred through the account.

As money muling perpetrators are often effective at recruiting victims, such attempts can be difficult to detect.

The police provided the following tips:

  • be suspicious of lucrative offers that promise quick and easy money;
  • never share one's bank account with third parties;
  • do not give out bank details to strangers;
  • do not withdraw or transfer money from unknown sources;
  • never transfer money to an unknown account at someone else's request.

Anyone who suspects they have been used as a money mule should stop all transactions and contact the police immediately.