Status: 01/20/2023 09:35 a.m
A senior woman was so pressured by scammers during a long phone call that she handed her cash to a messenger. (theme picture)
Fraudsters used a shock phone call to rob an elderly woman from the Geismar district of Göttingen of valuable jewelry and cash. According to the Göttingen police, a perpetrator had pretended to be the woman’s alleged son on the phone. He reported in a tearful voice that he had been involved in an accident in which a young woman died. An alleged policewoman took over the conversation and informed the elderly woman that the son had been arrested and that the woman had to post bail. The call lasted about 90 minutes, police said. The elderly handed jewelry and money to a courier. The amount of damage is unclear. The police are looking for the perpetrators.
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