Upper Austria: Senior Women Cheated on the Phone by 180,000 Euros

[Matsusaka] On the 22nd, Matsusaka Police Station of Mie Prefectural Police announced that a woman in her 60s from Taki County had transferred 5 million yen in cash from a financial institution and been defrauded. The case is being investigated as a special fraud case. According to the station, that morning, the woman received a call on her mobile phone from a man claiming to be an employee of a telephone company, who said, "A mobile phone has b…

Within a short time there were two cases in which pensioners lost a total of around 180,000 euros to fraudsters. The police now strongly warns against so-called "shock calls". For 14 days, professional telephone fraudsters in Upper Austria, massively in the districts of Wels-Land and Gmunden, have been trying to deceive the older generation. The callers spend themselves on the telephone from police officers or prosecutors and try to convince the…

False policemen and doctors collect 180,000 euros from senior women in Upper Austria through emotional shock calls in two days.

Investigators have excavated a supposedly criminal call center in Poznan, Poland, from which so-called shock calls were made to Germany. Four women and two men were arrested, as Munich police reported, which was involved in the investigation. They are now in custody in Poland. Police and prosecutors assume that the call center mainly called senior citizens in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt …

For the past two weeks, professional telephone operators have been increasingly trying to get money from older people in Austria. The police are giving tips not to give the parents a chance.

Although it could be a very lucky day to get to where you have the car parked and find you a fifty euro ticket in the windshield, the reality is quite different and is that it is a type of scam. The National Police has shared a video through their social networks explaining what this fraud consists of. Actually the scam does not develop with the car parked, but rather when you stop at some traffic light or a pedestrian pass. Swindlers take advan…