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60,000 Euros Away: False Policemen Beat up in East Hesse

A 70-year-old man from the Vogelsberg district has been the victim of a particularly brazen telephone fraud. On Tuesday noon, an alleged police officer, who warned him that burglars were on the road, that his money was in danger. What sounded like a heroic rescue operation turned out to be an expensive trap – because the man lost 60,000 euros.The perpetrator on the phone pretended to be a police officer from Lauterbach and convinced the pensione…
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A 70-year-old man from the Vogelsberg district has been the victim of a particularly brazen telephone fraud. On Tuesday noon, an alleged police officer, who warned him that burglars were on the road, that his money was in danger. What sounded like a heroic rescue operation turned out to be an expensive trap – because the man lost 60,000 euros.The perpetrator on the phone pretended to be a police officer from Lauterbach and convinced the pensione…

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osthessen-news.de broke the news in on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
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