Oberpfalz: Telephone Fraudsters Want to Kill Seniors

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An 83-year-old is called by a supposed policewoman – she has an unusual request: he should have gold picked up in a jute bag by a taxi driver. But the fraud flies.

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Telephone fraudsters in the Upper Palatinate tried to bring an 83-year-old to gold bars. The man in Amberg had received a call from a supposed police officer, the police reported. The woman had said that he had to give his valuables for a "test" due to several break-ins near his address. The senior was then to deposit gold bars worth tens of thousands of euros in a jute bag in his garage, from where they were picked up by taxi. A little later, a…