Senior woman wanted to withdraw 50,000 euros: vigilant bank employees prevent nasty trick fraud

With the grandchildren's trick, a senior citizen from Dachau was supposed to cost thousands of euros.

But the fraudsters did the bill without the bank employees.

• With the grandchildren's trick, a crook wanted to bring thousands of euros to a senior citizen from Dachau.

• The bank employees immediately noticed that something was wrong.

• The police praised the employees' commitment.

Dachau

- The scam is lousy and unfortunately just as successful: the

.

Time and again, crooks succeed in taking

out of their

.

The attempted

on Monday at a

in Dachau.

This was announced by the Upper Bavaria North Police Headquarters yesterday.

Anneliese Holzner, a consultant in the

on Münchner Strasse, knows her

well, she notices when they are having a bad day or when they suddenly

withdraw

that they would otherwise not withdraw.

Last Monday, an 84-year-old regular customer came to Holzner's branch and wanted

.

Since she had been telling Holzner for a long time that

were coming to her

soon

, the amount was okay.

But what happened

was anything but usual: In the afternoon the old lady came back to the branch and wanted to:

.

Of course that doesn't work.

Dachau: Senior woman wants to withdraw 50,000 euros - employees suspect "grandchildren's trick"

Yes, the man who

wanted the old lady's

did not give up.

He went with her to the

the

in the

of

, where he kept talking to her as

, looking for “very conspicuous closeness to her, seemed very tough”, as

Nina-Marie Dorfner describes.

Her colleague and trainee Noel Köllner is at the

at the moment

when the lady tries to

withdraw

and get a

for the fraudster.

Köllner has the intuitive feeling that something is wrong, notices from a gesture: The old lady feels uncomfortable.

Köllner and Dorfner talk to their colleague Franz Schubert, who is the first to find out more about

the old lady

.

Together with

, everyone comes to the conclusion: Something is wrong here.

There has never been a

with the 84-year-old in the

, she has never wanted such

, and has never wanted to

issue

a

to

anyone

.

“On the contrary,” emphasizes Holzner, who

knows

her

well.

Bank employees protect customers from fraud - but unfortunately the perpetrator can escape

So the three employees in the

tried to

briefly separate the old lady from the man under a pretext.

“That was as good as impossible,” said Schubert.

“The man just clung to her.” When the employees succeeded, trainee Noel Köllner asked the old lady if she even knew the man - the 84-year-old emphasized:

The

employees did not pay out the money

under a

, they kept their nerves all the time and “created an atmosphere that does not

cause

any

”.

When the scammer left the bank with the woman, they called the police.

Unfortunately, the story only has a half-perfect happy ending: thanks to the

, the old lady still has her

, but the

able to escape.

The Fürstenfeldbruck criminal police took over the further investigations, the officials emphasize: It is not uncommon for the perpetrators to deprive senior citizens of their entire

with this type of fraud

and thus bring them into

.

The police praised the

the attentive Dachau bank employees: "It is thanks to the professional reaction of attentive bank employees that there was no payment of large

in the first place!" Anneliese Holzner emphasizes: "Even if we are a big company, we know our customers very well - and work together to

"