Shock calls: Again, fraudsters with perfidious scams make big loot in the district
Created: 09/28/2022, 11:09 am
By: Christopher Peters
Fraud via telephone: Once again, criminals managed to swindle money from two women.
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Telephone scammers have struck again in the Weilheim-Schongau district.
With shock calls, they robbed two women in Penzberg and Böbing of cash, jewelry and gold worth around 150,000 euros.
Penzberg/Böbing - As reported by the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria South, a woman from Penzberg received a call from an alleged police officer last Friday.
He told the woman that her son had killed someone in a traffic accident and that she should now pay a high bail so that her son would not have to go to jail.
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.
In Böbing, too, the fraudsters are successful with their perfidious scam
Fraudsters used the same scam in Böbing yesterday, Tuesday.
According to the police headquarters, an unknown person called a Böbinger with a suppressed telephone number and pretended that her daughter had caused a traffic accident in which someone was 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, reports the police headquarters.
The woman then handed over cash and gold coins with a total value of up to 50,000 euros to an unknown person at the agreed place.
It's not the first time scammers have had success with so-called shock calls.
Police investigations are being carried out in numerous cases of call center fraud, according to spokesman Stefan Sonntag.
However, these turned out to be difficult for the most part.
"The call centers from which the calls to the victims are made are in many cases abroad." Affected victims would also usually only report to the police when the money collectors and the loot were already literally "over the mountains". be.
Police give advice on how to behave
The police strongly advise anyone who receives such a call to observe the following 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.
You can find more current news from the region around Schongau at Merkur.de/Schongau.