Fraudsters stole a five-figure sum from a senior citizen on December 23rd in Vaterstetten. The strangers had posed as police officers to the woman, as the police Poing now reports.
On the morning of December 23, the elderly lady from Vaterstetten received the first call from the fraudsters. They pretended to be police officers and tricked the woman into divulging details about her assets through skillful conversations. Among other things, she named her house bank in the phone calls that dragged on throughout the day.
The woman was urged to withdraw cash on the grounds that employees there issued counterfeit money and that this had to be checked by the police. In the evening the money in the amount of a five-digit euro amount was picked up by an alleged police officer at the front door. The man was then able to flee unrecognized.
In this case, the Erding Criminal Police Inspection took over the further investigations. The police generally advise you to be suspicious of such calls. Even if the telephone display shows the number 110 – the emergency number for the police – that does not mean that the police are on the line, because the police never call this number. If in doubt, the conversation should be ended as soon as possible without revealing any personal data or information about valuables or cash. You should definitely not hand over or transfer money – such demands would never come from the real police. Likewise, you should never let strangers into the apartment. The police advise that alleged officials, for example police officers, should be asked for ID cards: healthy suspicion is not considered impolite.