Strangers pretended to be police officers and led a 92-year-old to entrust them with items worth tens of thousands of euros.
Nuremberg - On Monday morning (July 19), a 92-year-old man in the Thon district of Nuremberg * was the victim of fraudsters.
They pretended to be police officers.
The Police Headquarters Middle Franconia * warns again of the scam.
In several phone calls to the senior, strangers falsely posed as police officers and told him that all of the man's valuables must be brought to a safe place, as a burglary might be imminent.
Nuremberg: Senior gives items to fraudsters
By clever conversation maneuvers, the fraudsters actually got the elderly gentlemen to hand over cash and objects worth tens of thousands of euros to them on Monday morning (July 19).
The responsible specialist commissioner of the Nuremberg criminal police has now started the investigation.
Now she is looking for evidence of witnesses.
Information on the offense can be sent to the following telephone number: 09 11 21 12 33 33.
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