Last but not least: Fraudster strikes with fake ad for the second time

A very clever fraudster has smuggled a fake double-page advertisement into the SonntagsZeitung and Heute newspapers - and thus landed the publishing houses Tamedia and Ringier with a hefty bill of CHF 60,000 and CHF 27,000 respectively. In each case, the fraudster posed as the client - only shortly before the advertising deadline - and thus fooled the advertising departments with a professional image. But that's not all; the advertisement, which depicts a naked upper body, presumably shows the trickster himself. Back in December, the Swiss magazine published by Riniger fell into a similar trap with the same trickster. The man is already the subject of fraud proceedings in the canton of Basel-Landschaft: last year he ordered T-shirts in the name of a circus, among other things.