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90-year-old woman from Delitzscher cheated of thousands of euros by fraudsters!
A 90-year-old woman from Delitzscher was the victim of serious fraud. Unknown people pretended to be officials and stole money.
90-year-old woman from Delitzscher cheated of thousands of euros by fraudsters!
In Delitzsch, a 90-year-old woman was defrauded of several thousand euros in a perfidious scam on Monday evening. Unknown perpetrators who pretended to be local court officials called the senior citizen and informed her about an alleged accident involving her granddaughter. In order to meet a supposedly due deposit, they demanded cash and gold jewelry. Unfortunately, the woman reacted, collected her valuables and handed them all over to a man who was waiting at her apartment door. The police are now investigating the fraud and are urgently warning against callers who pretend to be public officials and ask for money or bank details. This type of fraud, known as the grandchild trick, specifically targets older people, as lvz.de reports.
But how exactly do these fraud methods work? Con artists often use phone book entries to target older people as victims. The use of older first names and simple telephone numbers allows conclusions to be drawn about the age of the people concerned. To protect yourself from such attacks, the police recommend that you remove yourself from the phone book or shorten your first name. This could help conceal your identity and reduce the risk of being targeted by fraudsters. A deregistration form can be sent directly to the telephone provider, as polizei-beratung.de notes.
Recommended security measures
In addition, victims of telephone fraud, as in the case of the affected Delitzscher woman, should have their phone number changed. This change is often free and could be an important step in protecting yourself from further harassment. The list of recommended phone numbers for different providers in case someone wants to make a change includes:
- Deutsche Telekom AG: Tel. 0228 – 181 0
- Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG (O2): Tel. 089 – 78 79 79 40 0
- Vodafone (ehem. Unitymedia): Tel. 0800 – 17 21 21 22 oder 02214 – 46 06 10 90 01
- 1&1 Internet SE: Tel. 0721 – 96 00
The increasing number of fraud cases show that special attention should be paid to protecting older people. The police and various organizations offer numerous tips to protect yourself from telephone scammers. It is to be hoped that incidents like the one in Delitzsch will become less frequent and that older citizens will be better informed in order to protect themselves from these fraudulent schemes.