87-Year-Old in Upper Austria Defrauded of Five-Figure Sum by Fake Police Officers
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- Telephone fraudsters posing as criminal investigators told an 87-year-old man in Upper Austria that a burglary was about to occur.
- The pensioner withdrew money from savings accounts and placed cash and gold coins outside his home for the supposed police to collect.
- He lost valuables worth a five-figure euro sum, police said.
Telephone scammers posing as police officers convinced an 87-year-old man in the Schärding district of Upper Austria that a burglary was imminent.
The callers claimed that police would take his valuables into safekeeping. The pensioner withdrew money from his savings accounts and placed cash and gold coins outside his front door.
The fraudsters then took the valuables, leaving the man with losses in the five-figure euro range. Police reported the case on Sunday and warned that the callers had used the false burglary story to obtain the victim’s savings and gold.
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Originally published by Der Standard in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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