After the bankruptcy of the British travel group Thomas Cook, scammers apparently want to scavenge sensitive customer data. Thomas Cook in Germany warned on Saturday evening via Twitter and on his homepage: "Currently there is a nasty e-mail scam: This e-mail is as an official message from Thomas Cook declared with the subject:" Important: refund your Thomas Cook "Sensing sensitive data, such as passport and credit card information, is what Thomas Cook said," at no time did he send e-mails of this type to customers. Please ignore these mails and delete them, "it said.
Thomas Cook in Germany had fallen into the maelstrom of bankruptcy of the British parent company and filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. Bankruptcy trustees want to try to continue the three Thomas Cook companies in Germany and find a solution for the future. Investors should be found for the companies.
Holidaymakers who had booked for the coming days can not start with the German Thomas Cook since the beginning of the week. As the company announced on Thursday night, all trips were canceled until October 31, even if they are already paid. As for traveling with start from the 1. November 2019 stands, the enterprise left open. In coordination with the insolvency insurance, the further procedure will be examined, it was said.
According to data from Friday were still 55,000 Thomas Cook package holiday from Germany on the road. At the beginning of the week, there were about 140,000 left.