After a shock call: Böbingerin hands over a large sum to fraudsters
Created: 09/28/2022, 13:33
By: Astrid Neumann
The woman from Böbing gave the telephone fraudsters cash and gold coins with a total value of up to 50,000 euros.
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Böbing - Fraudsters using the "shock call" scam have again stolen large sums of cash, gold and jewelry from two victims from the Weilheim-Schongau district in the past few days.
The prey damage is in the low six-digit range.
The police warns again of the perfidious scam.
On Tuesday, September 27, an unknown person called a woman in Böbing from a suppressed phone number and told her that her daughter had caused a traffic accident in which someone had been run over and fatally injured.
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.
At the agreed place, the woman handed over cash and gold coins with a total value of up to 50,000 euros to an unknown person.
Fraudsters also struck in Penzberg: an alleged police officer called a woman in Penzberg last Friday, September 23, and told her that her son had killed someone in a traffic accident and that she should now pay a high bail so that her son does not have to go to prison.
The woman then handed over gold and jewelry worth around 100,000 euros to an unknown person at an agreed handover location in the neighboring district.
The criminal police inspectorate with central tasks of the police headquarters Oberbayern Süd conducts the police investigations in numerous cases of call center fraud.
These are usually difficult in this area of phenomena.
The call centers from which the calls to the victims are made are in many cases located abroad.
Affected victims also usually only report to the police when the money collectors and the loot are literally "over the mountains".
The police headquarters in Oberbayern Süd has been warning of this perfidious scam for a long time and regularly publishes the following behavioral tips:
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 to be paid!
The police will never ask you for cash, money transfers or valuables 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!
DO NOT press redial.
Hang up and then dial the emergency number 110!
Always file a complaint with your police station, even if you try it!
The younger generation in particular is expressly asked to speak openly about the scams of telephone scammers and thus sensitize your close relatives and acquaintances who could become victims of such sneaky calls.
