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Rostock (dpa / mv) - A resolute bank employee saved a pensioner in Rostock from the loss of 10,000 euros.
As a police spokeswoman said on Thursday, it was the second case in a short time in which attentive helpers thwarted the business of con artists.
The 86-year-old received a so-called shock call from a woman on Tuesday who he assumed was his daughter.
You need money because you caused an accident.
Without bail, she had to surrender her driver's license, and even the public prosecutor was involved.
The Rostock declared that he didn't have that much money at home.
He went to a bank in the south of the city and told a 57-year-old bank employee about it.
She got the phone number of the 86-year-old's real daughter, reached her and the fraud was discovered.
The police expressly thanked the bank employee.
It was only on Monday that a taxi driver saved a woman from Rostock from losing 40,000 euros.
Fraudsters had told the pensioner that her grandson had Corona.
This could be saved with a previously unapproved vaccine, which would cost 40,000 euros.
The taxi driver who was supposed to drive the woman to the bank exposed the fraud.
In the northeast, such fraudsters captured almost two million euros with these and similar scams last year.
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