Attention, fraudsters on the phone: How to protect your valuables!

Attention, fraudsters on the phone: How to protect your valuables!

shocking fraud in Gerasdorf: A perpetrator disguised as a police officer has wrapped up valuables for a 89-year-old woman worth thousands of euros. The incident occurred today when the senior citizen was pressed on the phone to get her valuables for the "robbers" to safety. According to Noen , the woman should be waiting for a further call while she was stopped in describing her values in detail. In the front yard of her house, there was finally a handover with cash and jewelry - and it was attacked. The perpetrator, about 30 years old, fled in an unknown direction without the police have so far been a hot trace.

This incident is part of an increasing wave of fraud attempts in which criminals pretend to be police officers. How reports, these fraudsters use perfidious tricks to deceive the elderly. They pretend to be a police officer to bring trust and claim that currencies or valuables are not safe. In a particularly brazen case, an incorrect arrest warrant was sent to force a payment.