In various groups on Facebook, several users offer that they will take the penalty for another driver for a fee. A clip can cost several thousand kroner.
Korekort fraud and so-called "Facebook clips" are among the illegal activities that abound in closed Facebook groups in Denmark.
Here, users offer services that include taking over clips in choir cards for others, insurance fraud, as well as various types of fraud related to social benefits. Payment for these services is set in advance and is often advertised in clear terms.
For example, a user in one of the groups writes that it costs DKK 2,500 plus the price of the stall if the person in question has to take the 'clip' off his coat.
This is written by DR .
Illegal goods such as drugs are also traded as well as high-end goods in the form of designer lamps and electric bicycles without chargers.
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There are also users who search for specific types of scams that they want to buy into. Social fraud is among the most popular.
Although these groups are regularly shut down, they quickly reappear under new names and the activity continues unbelievably.
Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard (S) has criticized the trend and points to tech giants such as Meta, Facebook's owner, as co-responsible for the illegal transactions.
The minister calls it problematic that social media is increasingly being used for crime, and he sees a need for increased control.
– It screams to heaven that many of the platforms that the tech giants have made available to all of us are gradually being used to a greater and greater extent to facilitate actual crime, says Hummelgaard.
The minister, who himself has been exposed in breaking the traffic law several times, mentions other platforms that have similar problems. For example, the Russian medium Telegram is used to communicate with assassins.
While, according to the minister, Snapchat is used to trade drugs. The Facebook groups are thus part of a wider problem, where the police are currently dependent on the willingness of the tech companies to cooperate:
Martin Ruby, Facebook's political head in the Nordics, writes to DR that the social network actively removes content that breaks the rules.
According to Ruby, millions of posts and profiles are removed daily. He also emphasizes that Facebook generally cooperates with the police and other authorities.
Often, however, it does not go quickly enough. However, some drivers also allow themselves to be cheated by fraudsters on platforms such as Facebook. One driver, for example, was so furious that he reported himself to the police. Read more about it here .
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