Trick fraud in the Fulda district: Covered telephone fraudsters in a fresh act!

Trick fraud in the Fulda district: Covered telephone fraudsters in a fresh act!

On the evening of January 20, 2025, a 36-year-old man from the Fulda district was victim of a perfidious trick fraud. On a phone call, the perpetrator pretended to be an employee of his bank and claimed to have found striking transactions in the injured party's account. In order to clarify the alleged irregularities, he asked the man to transfer money to an account. The injured party then transferred an average four-digit amount, as the news.de

The problem of telephone fraud affects not only older people, but also younger generations. Victims of such frauds often suffer from financial losses, as well as shame and self -accusations. The spread of fraud stitches, in which perpetrators pretend to be the wrong bank employee or police officer, has increased in recent years. An overview of current fraud forms shows:

• Calls of false bank employees
• Calls of false police officers
• shock call
• grandchildren's trick

In order to better protect the population, the police offer information events and workshops in which citizens learn how to prepare themselves against such fraud. It is important that people are sensitive and do not hand over private information or money to unknown people, emphasizes a police spokesman. The manual entry of telephone numbers on the recall could also be a simple but efficient measure against fraud, such as Wochenblatt-reporter.de recommended.