80-year-old sees through the scam
“Mom, I had a traffic accident,” a crying and sobbing woman reported to an 80-year-old woman from Altena on Tuesday afternoon. She is now with the police. The elderly woman immediately suspected an attempted fraud and asked to speak to a police officer. When the 80-year-old told the alleged police officer that she believed there was an attempted fraud and would call the “real police,” the fraudster threatened her quite drastically. Then he hung up. Laughing could be heard in the background, the woman later reported to the uniformed police officers.
The elderly woman did not take the threat seriously. The police officers took a report and advised the 80-year-old.
Shock calls too often successful
Unfortunately, scammers keep trying to make these kinds of shock calls on the phone. In too many cases they manage to take the mostly older victims by surprise.
It is by no means the rule that the fraudster immediately loses his nerve and insults his victims, as was the case with the woman from Altena. Time and again, perpetrators manage to convince even suspicious victims. That's why the police advise not to respond to such calls in the first place. " Hang up! “, is the advice.
If you want to make sure that there isn't a real story behind it, you should wait a few seconds after the end of the conversation so that the call has definitely ended. Then you should calmly try to reach the real daughter or son and ask the real police or file a report.
The perpetrators often make up elaborate stories and connect their victims with different conversation partners: one plays the daughter, one the police officer, the next the prosecutor and so on. In reality, they all sit more or less next to each other in a call center.
It always comes down to demands for money. Apparently the daughter would otherwise have to go to prison. In the Märkisches Kreis, too, victims were lured to the district court late at night to hand over money, where an alleged bailiff received the “deposit” in front of the door.
The police make it clear: There are no such “deposits” as the fraudsters demand in Germany. Therefore, there is no reason whatsoever to hand over cash without thinking.
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