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In the Starnberg district, an 87-year-old woman receives messages from an unknown person via WhatsApp.
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Gauting-Unterbrunn - It was only a few days ago that a 65-year-old from Gilching handed over items worth 30,000 euros to call center fraudsters.
Now an 87-year-old senior woman from Gauting reported messages from an unknown person.
After a woman from Gilching became the victim of a perfidious telephone fraudster on Wednesday, the Gautingen police officers' senses were sharpened for forms of call center fraud, including WhatsApp fraud.
The 65-year-old woman from Gilching was directed by a fake police officer to the Linz main train station in Austria via an hour-long telephone conversation using a fraudulent scam involving an alleged accident involving a good friend in Austria, where she handed over valuables worth 30,000 euros to an unknown collector.
Gauting police department leader warns senior citizen
The service group leader of the Gautingen police immediately pricked up his ears when he received a call from a senior citizen from Unterbrunn on Friday.
The senior citizen reported that she had been contacted several times by an unknown person via the messaging service WhatsApp.
The senior citizen could not accurately describe the exact content of the message, but according to the service group leader, it was obvious that fraudsters were again active here and tried to get in touch with the Unterbrunner senior citizen.
Patrol informs senior citizen from Gauting about fraud schemes
He therefore immediately sent a patrol to Unterbrunn.
There the police discovered that the senior citizen had deleted her WhatsApp account as a precaution because she wanted to prevent intrusive contact with the unknown message writer.
When reinstalling the app, she accidentally switched her WhatsApp to Russian.
The Gautingen police officers were therefore able to help her install WhatsApp in German.
In addition, as a precautionary measure, the patrol informed them about all the scams via WhatsApp, including the widespread false message about the son or daughter's lost cell phone, which meant that they should contact a new number and pay a bill or a rental deposit immediately afterwards.
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