Grandchild trick scammers are now using messenger services in the Gütersloh district

There are now a number of scams to rip off money. Now the so-called grandchild trick scammers are also using messenger services in the Gütersloh district.

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district of Gütersloh. With a new variant of the grandchild trick, fraudsters are currently trying to get at their supposed victims in the Gütersloh district, the police said. The attempt at fraud is therefore as follows: A message is received on the smartphone via a messenger service. The content is: “Hello mom / hello dad, I lost my cell phone and a new number. Please save it!” If a conversation then takes place, the scammers ask for a bank transfer, according to the police, since the lost mobile phone means that the online banking options have also been lost.

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