On Thursday (November 17th), unknown persons stole jewelry from a senior citizen from Wesseling. A supposed doctor claimed on the phone that the victim's daughter was suffering from Covid-19 and that she could be helped with a new type of medication.
Shock call: Witnesses to the handover wanted
The investigators from Criminal Investigation Department 12 are looking for witnesses who saw the person collecting the jewelry in the area of Bogenstrasse, Pfeilstrasse, Schützenweg or Berzdorfer Strasse. He should be around 160 to 175 centimeters tall and have short black hair. He was wearing a black jacket. The detectives will receive information on 02233 52-0 or by email to poststelle.rhein-erft-kreis@polizei.nrw.de .
The process of the fraud
The senior citizen stated that she had been called at around 2 p.m. by a supposed doctor from a hospital in the Rhein-Erft district. After she explained that her daughter was ill, she is said to have asked the injured party to cover the cost of a new medication. This is possible with cash or jewelry. In order to help her daughter, the elderly woman said she handed over various pieces of jewelry to an unknown man around 2:30 p.m. He picked up the jewelry at the injured party's home address.
Warn older people
So this shock call was unfortunately successful. Even if at first glance it seems completely clear that fraudsters are calling, these criminals always manage to create such high emotional and time pressure that all warning signals are ignored. Older people in particular are not always able to escape this pressure and simply hang up. Here it helps to repeatedly point out this danger to older people in their personal environment over the telephone.
Source:
Rhein-Erft District Police Authority
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