On January 14, police received a report of fraud. The victim was a 67-year-old woman from Jelenia Góra.
According to investigators, a man calling a landline contacted the senior woman, claiming to be an officer of the Municipal Police Headquarters in Jelenia Góra. He told her that an investigation was under way involving bank employees who intended to take out a loan using the 67-year-old’s identity card.
The fake officer asked the woman to cooperate and instructed her to withdraw cash from the branch where the allegedly suspicious employees supposedly worked.
The brazen fraudster kept the victim on the phone the entire time. Following the purported police officer’s instructions, the woman from Jelenia Góra withdrew tens of thousands of zlotys from her account and then handed the cash to an unidentified man.
Police warn:
Do not provide any information over the phone about your home, savings, when you are at home or who you live with. Remember that police officers do not call people and collect money from them.
Do not respond to 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 suspicious individuals into your home.
It is always worth calling a relative back using a known number. Contact someone in your family to confirm that such an incident has occurred.
The police add:
Any suspicious phone calls should be reported to the police immediately by calling 112.
Let us recall that fraud is punishable by between six months and as much as eight years in prison.