A current case shows that criminals have learned new things and appear increasingly credible. Caution is advised.
The scam is far from new, but the approach is worrying. As in the past, many Burgenlanders are currently being called by fraudsters pretending to be police officers. Criminals used to be more or less easy to convict – for example through a German dialect – but now the fraudsters seem to have learned something new. This is evident from an ongoing case.
Call from “police officer”
A young woman says she received a call from a blocked number on her cell phone. When she answered, a man with an Austrian dialect, who said he was a police officer, answered on the other end of the line. “He addressed me by my last name, which really surprised me,” says the Burgenland resident.
“Cry for help” from daughter in disguised voice
She almost believed the stranger. But when he tried to convince her that her daughter had been involved in a traffic accident and that a deposit had to be paid, the fraud attempt came to light. “I don’t even have a daughter,” the woman said. This meant that the alleged daughter’s ‘cries for help’ were not very credible. “It could have been the caller himself with a disguised voice.”
Worrying
What worries the woman is that the criminals now know the names of their victims and therefore appear even more credible. “The elderly in particular are at high risk of believing fraudsters and transferring money,” she warns of caution.
Source: Krone
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