Munich resident sells house for 2.9 million euros and moves to hotel - because she follows a hint

A senior citizen from Munich was put under pressure by tricksters for months. She even sold her house, gave away valuables. The police will intervene in the event of a handover.

• A gang of tricksters cheated a senior from Munich with fictional stories about selling houses .
• Police officers help with the transfer of valuables .
• Now one of the alleged perpetrators is on trial .

Munich - This coup could have ended in millions if the wrong police officers had not been caught in the last second. A gang had put so much pressure on a 70-year-old Munich girl for over half a year over the phone that she even sold her property for over 2.9 million euros - and, as ordered by the fraudsters, invested in diamonds and a watch.

So far, only one of the alleged at least three perpetrators has been identified and arrested. The 31-year-old now has to answer for himself in court : the Munich I public prosecutor has charged with attempted commercial and gang fraud in a crime with official presumption.

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Tricksters in Munich: unsuspecting elderly woman hands over valuables worth 305,000 euros

In March last year, the elderly woman received the first call from the wrong police officers. She was told that her name would be on the list of a gang of possible victims of the break-in . The wrong policemen also said that the alleged burglars were working with employees at their bank. The woman then handed over gold and watches worth around 305,000 euros to a collector in March and April of last year.

After this handover, the fraudsters' contact with the Munich woman was daily. She had been made to deregister her landline connection - and only use a cell phone. The daily caller, a so-called “boar”, then pretended to the pensioner that a police officer from the Munich Presidium was being held captive and threatened by the Romanian mafia . The fraudsters made the woman believable that she was obliged by a covert police operation to buy him free, but that she would get the property back.

Munich: woman sells house for 2.9 million euros and moves to hotel

Therefore, the Munich resident sold her house for 2.9 million euros and moved to a hotel . For the sum, they bought diamonds for 2.5 million and a watch for 175,000 euros. When the now accused man wanted to pick up the jewelry, he was arrested by civil servants .

A man stole half a million euros from a woman with an age-old scam. Investigators released a call from fake police officers to an unsuspecting victim - the phone call sounds shocking.

Fraudsters don't stop at the Corona crisis * either - but a couple from Munich lets the gang run aground. The police have already warned that the spread of the corona virus could be used to rip off money.

* merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

Tina Layes