His potential victims! He sits at a table abroad with his criminal gang and looks through telephone directories. His goal: to make money – heartless and merciless. Then he dials the number - today it's the 352nd direct hit!

Margret Müller (fictitious name) accepts the conversation. With one or two clever questions, the fraudster knows that the 85-year-old has a son. And in the caller's story, he is said to have caused a fatal traffic accident. Now he can only be released on bail.

The caller, who claims to be a police officer, is targeting senior citizens and their assets.

These fraudsters often call from sometimes professional call centers. Psychologically clever and with an insistent conversation style, they seduce people like Margret, Friedrich or Heinz into handing over huge amounts of money and valuable items to strangers.

These strangers are essentially middlemen or middlemen who “work” regionally for the gangs and thus earn a few euros. However, they give the majority of the loot to the bosses - it can be a few hundred euros. But they are often dizzyingly high five-figure or even six-figure sums.

Unbelievable for many people who have only heard of such tricks. Shameful, shocking and sad at the same time for the people who were tricked. The Duisburg police take action against such schemes with special investigators for trick theft and trick fraud, numerous prevention actions by the Commissariat for Prevention and publication of the cases in the press and on social media. But unfortunately the criminals are still successful with new scams.

This was also the case in Wedau on Monday afternoon (June 13th, 1:30 p.m.). A fraudster surprised an 80-year-old woman with a shock phone call and persuaded her to hand over money to a fake court employee at around 5 p.m. The person who picked me up had long blonde hair and was wearing a black coat. If you have seen the suspect in the area between Dickelsbach, Wambach (Sechs-Seen-Platte) and the Eisenbahner-Siedlung, please contact the Criminal Investigation Department 32 on 0203 2800. By the way, the 80-year-old's name and address are in the telephone book.

Source: Duisburg police

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