Attempted fraud in real estate purchase - do you know this?

This is a case for the criminal police. Inform your contact person at the municipality and ask him to file a report. In my experience, the police authorities are very reluctant with private complaints.

Exactly.... you say you want to buy the property from the municipality. Who is listed in the land register?

I don't think sentence 1 is correct.

Sentence 2 is probably the best approach.

I thought you were buying a plot of land? Here it talks about a finished house. What matters is what is recorded in the land register, that is your seller.

Exactly – that’s why this is definitely an attempted fraud The land is being purchased directly from the municipality...

Still, I wouldn’t necessarily open PDF files from emails of unknown senders Possible that the municipality has to publish the prospective buyers somewhere? I’d ask the municipality.

I prudently opened the PDFs in an image editing program – no scripts can be executed there

I already sent an email to the municipality yesterday – but I simply can’t imagine it being legitimate to publicly disclose all prospective buyers somewhere – especially including my private email address.

My suspicion is more towards a hacked IT system on the part of the municipality or the notary. How else would the sender have such explicit information regarding the municipality (quite small) and the address there...

I suspect that as soon as you send your ID card, it will either be used for identity theft or further “expenses” will be demanded by the supposed brokerage agency.

This is a case for the criminal police. Inform your contact person at the municipality and ask them to file a report. In my experience, the police authorities are very reluctant when it comes to private complaints.

Private complaints? That is a term that is not used by the police. The reporting party is always a person! The principle of legality makes no distinction as to whether a company, administration, or private individual is harmed.

Please print everything out and report the data theft to the police. No online report, but directly, sooner rather than later, as the data protection law does not exactly make prosecution easier.

I know! Wanting to rent out a cool apartment and wanting to get 500 € for it so that the key for the viewing is sent over^^ Classic

Are you sure this refers to "your" property? I received an identical email (with a different name and property, of course) when I made an inquiry about a property on Immoscout. The ID copies probably belong to some poor candidates who replied to the initial email with their ID copy...

Lately, properties have also appeared under sales (at bargain prices) that were simply brazenly copied from the "rental" section. They disappear quickly again (deleted, probably because reported), but not immediately...