As officers established, on 7 May at around 3:00 p.m., a woman pretending to be the senior’s granddaughter called the landline of an 83-year-old resident of Kowary (Jelenia Góra County). The fraudster informed the elderly woman that her son-in-law had caused an accident in which someone had been taken to hospital and that money was needed for the person’s surgery.
The fake granddaughter said that the son-in-law’s lawyer would come to collect the cash. He received several thousand zlotys from the victim.
Police:
We warn against such calls.
What do the officers advise?
- do not provide any information over the phone about our home, savings, when we are at home or who we live with
- do not answer any surveys containing similar questions
- do not hand over cash or any other items to strangers
- do not let survey takers, salespeople, people claiming to be employees of various institutions or other suspiciously behaving individuals into your home
- always call the relative back using a known number. Contact someone in the family to confirm that such an incident has occurred.
- any suspicious calls should be reported to the police immediately: 997 or 112.