Greifswald (dpa / mv) - Attentive employees of a savings bank have saved a 92-year-old woman from Greifswald her savings of around 40,000 euros. As a police spokesman said on Wednesday, the senior citizen almost fell for a perfidious scam by tricksters on Tuesday. Unknown people had called the pensioner at noon and pretended to be her granddaughter and a police officer. In tears, the caller is said to have described how she had caused a fatal accident.
The alleged police officer confirmed this. The alleged granddaughter is in custody, it said. In consultation with the public prosecutor, she could be released on five-digit bail. The senior should give the money to an official who is coming by. That prompted the 92-year-old to go to her house bank and withdraw money. The scammers kept her on the phone all the time and asked her not to tell anyone.
However, the employees noticed this and enlightened the woman. The police expressly thanked the attentive women and men in the bank for their actions. There was a series of such attempts at fraud in eastern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which those called would otherwise have seen through. In the north-east, such and similar cases of fraud occur again and again, with around three million euros being stolen in the previous year.
