Six authorities from Germany and Austria published a joint set of figures at 9:35 a.m. on September 25, 2026: over the past three months, Operation Herakles has taken 9,304 German phone numbers out of service, numbers investment fraudsters had used to call their victims. Since the operation began the total stands at 13,888 numbers, 13,397 of them German and 491 Austrian. If a call about a crypto investment reaches you in the coming weeks, that figure is precisely why you should handle the conversation differently than before.