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Tricks and scams of the telephone fraud mafia
Children and grandchildren: inform your parents and grandparents!
The perpetrators are organized in gangs, operate by telephone and are usually located abroad. At the slightest suspicion that the police might become aware of a crime in time, the perpetrators hang up and stop calling. Investigations are very difficult. Here you will find information on the tricks and scams of the telephone fraud mafia as well as tips on how to behave and offers of help if you or your loved ones are targeted by the criminals.

The starting points for telephone scams are often call centers, which criminals usually operate professionally abroad. To better protect our senior citizens and to stop criminals from committing fraud, the Essen and Oberhausen police headquarters are pooling and coordinating their efforts in a joint investigation team.

These crimes have become known as a result of the so-called grandchild trick. Senior citizens are called by alleged grandchildren or relatives who pretend to urgently need cash in an emergency situation...

The telephone fraud mafia operates very systematically in the call centers, most of which are based in Turkey. The criminals specifically look for old and old-fashioned first names in telephone directories. They know that the "older generation" is generally always very friendly and helpful. They want to take advantage of this and try to gain the trust of senior citizens during the phone calls in order to obtain personal information in the course of the conversation, which they then use to inflict financial damage on the elderly people.

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