On Thursday (October 12th), an 81-year-old woman from Kaarst became the victim of a scam via a messenger service at around 2:54 p.m.
Her daughter apparently sent her a message on her cell phone. It included a request to pay an invoice for the daughter, and the IBAN to which the transfer should go was also stated in the chat.
The 81-year-old complied with this request and transferred a low four-digit amount.
Criminal Investigation Department 23 has taken over the investigation.
Messages with a clearly fraudulent background are currently occurring again and again. In general, you should be aware of the fact that a healthy level of suspicion is advisable if urgent demands for money are made to you out of the blue – even if they are from supposedly acquaintances! Under no circumstances should you accept requests for money via text messages – or even on the phone. Contact the supposedly requesting relatives using the traditional methods you know and convince yourself that the request is correct.
Please send inquiries from press representatives to:
The district administrator of the Rhine district of Neuss as the district police authority – press office – Jülicher Landstrasse 178 41464 Neuss Telephone: 02131/300-14000 02131/300-14011 02131/300-14013 02131/300-14014 Fax: 02131/300-140 09 Email: press office. neuss@polizei.nrw.de Web:
Original content from: Rhein-Kreis Neuss District Police Authority, transmitted by news aktuell
2023-10-14 00:32:44
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