Alternative title: “Dear” scammer who wanted to rip off my grandma for €10,000.

“Dear” scammer, you wanted to rip off my grandma for €10,000. You picked the wrong person to do it. You picked the wrong family for this. Because I've already found completely different people than you little grand-trick swindler.

And that brings us to the topic: For months we have been reporting on scammers who want to cheat seniors out of their savings using some lousy tricks. Sometimes as fake police officers, sometimes as fake grandchildren. What's happening: Scammers specifically call seniors and tell them a story. A story about a grandson who is in need and needs money, for example.

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False grandchildren, that's the key word here. I am a grandson. A grandson of my grandmother. And my grandma got a call like that today. You introduced yourself to her as her grandson from abroad. The grandson who urgently needs money from her.

Dear “friend”, I am your grandson who lives abroad. During the conversation you pretended to be “Andre”. You wanted to defraud my grandmother of €10,000 because my grandmother would have scraped together this money for her grandson (for all of her grandchildren, I'm sure). She would have scraped together every single cent.

But you are not her grandson. YOU are a lousy fraudster. And with a bit of luck and common sense, your attempted fraud will fail. But what can I say? You wanted to cheat on my grandma and pretended to be “me”. And so you chose the wrong person. Believe me, I've already brought down Anonymous collective I have exposed botnets. And I find YOU, who wants to rob seniors of their savings.

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More on the topic: Grandchildren's trick and fake police officers

Using the words “ Guess who is speaking here ” or a similar formulation, fraudsters try to scam seniors out of their savings. The trick: With skillful questions, they can find out the names of relatives who they pretend to be in the rest of the conversation within a short period of conversation

The fraudsters try to make the person they are talking to on the phone believe that they have a family or friendly relationship. In a second step, the selected prospective victims are then asked to hand over an often large amount of cash. The reason given is, for example, the need for money to buy a cheap property. If the potential victim has decided to hand over the money, a third person will be sent to hand over the money so that the fraud does not fail shortly before reaching its target.

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