Shock calls: coins and gold bars gone
Oberhaching/Hasenbergl – A 57-year-old from Hasenbergl received a call on Monday. They thought it was their son. The man claimed he was responsible for a fatal traffic accident. Supposedly she should pay the bail.
The woman went to the bank, cleared her safe deposit box and later handed gold bars and cash for around 16,000 euros to a stranger at the front door. She realized too late that she had been tricked.
Always successful: shock callers in Munich
Like it was an 80-year-old pensioner on Monday in Oberhaching. He also fielded the horror story of the fatal accident on the phone. He thought he could save his daughter from liability with his money. The senior gave a stranger jewelry and coins with a total value of around 20,000 euros.
In both cases, men collected the money from the victims’ homes. Both perpetrators spoke Polish, which did not make the victims particularly suspicious. With shock calls, tricksters stole around five million euros in Munich alone in 2022.
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