On Saturday afternoon, the police in Bergen received a report that an elderly woman had been swindled for large sums of money after a phone call.
– We are talking about significant sums, says operations manager Tatjana Knappen in the West police district to NRK on Saturday night.
They went out on Twitter and told about the incident, and warned others against the procedure.
The woman is said to have had a wart called on the phone. At the other end, there must be a person who pretended to be a police officer.
Tap the account
He said that suspicious activity had been registered on the woman’s account. The person in question then asked for her personal information and information about the code chip.
Then her account was drained of large sums of money.
– The police would never have operated in this way, says Knappen.
The West Police District will immediately initiate an investigation into the case, and will continue to work on the case beyond Saturday evening and night.
– It was family members of the woman who contacted the police, says the operations leader.
I was told not to use the phone
The police, for example, have few clues to follow, and fear they have lost a lot of time in the case.
The report to the police came on Saturday afternoon, but the fraud is said to have happened earlier.
– The woman was told not to use the phone or PC from the scammer, and therefore we fear that time has been lost. It is a cunning way to cheat, says Knappen.
The operations manager says they have a sure point that the fraud has taken place.
Experts answered the audience: – I was scammed for 1.6 million
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