There was a strange police operation in Regensburg on Wednesday.
One woman may have been in the clutches of scammers.
But then everything turned out differently.
Regensburg * - “Fraudsters are here.” A woman received this WhatsApp * message on Wednesday morning (February 10th) from her mother.
The sender did not respond to the following calls from the daughter.
So was she possibly in danger?
The daughter immediately made an emergency call and behaved “absolutely right”, as stated in the press release of the Upper Palatinate police headquarters *.
WhatsApp mistake triggers police operation in Regensburg
The police immediately went and called the mother at the same time.
Even before the emergency services were on site, she answered the phone and cleared up the misunderstanding.
She actually wanted to write to her daughter: “Sheets are there.” But the auto-correction didn’t play along: “There are fraudsters,” the daughter read.
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Autocorrection triggers a police operation in Regensburg: the police report in full
"REGENSBURG. A serious emergency call was received on Wednesday at the operations center of the Upper Palatinate police headquarters. One woman may have been in the clutches of scammers. But then everything turned out differently.
On Wednesday morning, February 10, 2021, a young lady excitedly called the police emergency number in Regensburg after she had received a WhatsApp message from her mother: "Scammers are here." The mother no longer answered the phone when the daughter called. So was she possibly in danger? The daughter behaved absolutely correctly and immediately called the police emergency number.
The operations center immediately initiated a police operation and called the mother in parallel.
Fortunately, the police were able to reach her promptly, which meant that a misunderstanding could be cleared up quickly.
Actually, the daughter's mother wanted to write: “Sheets are there”.
Unfortunately, however, auto-correction turned "sheets" into criminal "frauds". "