The police announce that several cases of fraud against the elderly were received on Tuesday.
It is about, for the victims, unknown people who tried and sometimes succeeded in cheating the elderly for money.
This by trying to get their credit card and code.
Two cases in Fagersta
Two cases are in Fagersta.
In one case, a man in his 85s has been called to buy a mobile phone, and the person also comes to the man's home and takes his credit card and code with him.
In the second case, it is a woman aged 85 who gets a call that something would be wrong with her phone bills.
The caller comes to the woman's house and gets her card and code.
A larger amount of money must then have disappeared.
Three cases in Västerås
A woman in her 90s is called by a person who claims to be calling from a finance company, and that there is something wrong with the woman's credit card.
The person then goes to the woman and takes the card with him.
Another woman, also in her 90s, is called by someone who claims to be a "banker" and he then picks up the woman's credit card and code.
Later, a larger amount of money disappears from the account.
The third case is also about a woman in her 90s who is called by a person who claims that there is something wrong with her loan.
The person then comes home to the woman and takes her credit card, but without the code.