US EditionBeware of Shock Calls: Cuxhavenerin Becomes a Victim of Fraud
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Again and again, so-called shock calls of older people take the focus also with us in the Bergische. In doing so, the perpetrators pretend, for example, to be police officers or relatives and claim that there was a serious accident and only a quick bail can prevent detention.
A harmless call – and suddenly a nightmare begins. Silke Seifert from Cuxhaven (Lower Saxony): An alleged message from her daughter, a supposed emergency situation – and shortly thereafter the demand for money. Behind it is a perfidious scam, which is currently taking hold again. Organized gangs put their victims under targeted pressure to get their savings. In Bremen in 2024 "only a little over 100 cases were reported – half as many as in the p…
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