"Shock call": Penzbergerin (78) hands over gold and jewelry for 100,000 euros
Created: 09/28/2022, 13:51
By: Andreas Baer
The scammers called women in Penzberg and Böbing.
©Andreas Baar
Penzberg – Fraudsters make rich loot in the Weilheim-Schongau district with “shock calls”.
A woman from Penzberg (78) hands over gold and jewelry worth around 100,000 euros.
The case happened on Friday (September 23) between about 12:30 p.m. and 2:40 p.m. in Penzberg.
An alleged police officer called a woman.
The person called was a 78-year-old, as reported by Stefan Sonntag, press spokesman for the Oberbayern Süd police headquarters in Rosenheim, when asked by the Rundschau.
The unknown caller told the elderly woman that her son had killed someone in a traffic accident and that she should now post a large bail to keep her son out of jail.
The woman from Penzberg then handed over gold and jewelry worth around 100,000 euros to an unknown person at an agreed handover location in the neighboring district of Starnberg.
Police tips
The police advise to protect against such scams:
- Do not let yourself be put under pressure, not even by allegedly urgent investigations, for example after a traffic accident, a burglary in the vicinity or an urgent deposit that needs to be paid.
- The police will never ask you for cash, money transfers or anything of value to conduct an investigation.
Just hang up.
- Never give out information about your belongings, your cash and your valuables on the phone.
Just hang up.
- Do not let anyone into your home who wants to see where you keep your money or jewellery.
- Never call back using the number displayed on the phone.
Don't press redial.
Hang up and then dial the emergency number 110.
- Always file a report with your police station, even if you try to do so.
- The younger generation in particular is expressly requested: Speak openly about the scams of telephone scammers and thus sensitize your close relatives and acquaintances who could become victims of such underhanded calls.
The Bavarian police have more on their website (https://www.polizei.bayern.de/).
Second case in Böbing
According to the police, a second case occurred on Tuesday (September 27): An unknown person called a woman in Böbing from a suppressed phone number and told the mid-50s that her daughter had caused a traffic accident in which someone was run over and fatally injured would have been.
In order to avoid detention, a deposit in the five-digit range must be deposited.
"The dramatic message was reinforced by the fact that the alleged daughter cried on the phone," the police said.
The Böbingerin handed over cash and gold coins with a total value of up to 50,000 euros to an unknown person at the agreed place.
Investigations are difficult
The police warns again of the "perfidious scam".
The criminal police are already investigating numerous cases of call center fraud in Upper Bavaria.
According to the police headquarters, these are usually difficult: the call centers are in many cases abroad, and the victims would usually only report to the police when the people collecting the money and the loot were "over the mountains".
