Wetterau
on a new "grandchildren's trick" reports the Wetterau police department. On Tuesday, June 15, a woman from Ober-Mörlen received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number. The author of the mail posed as her grown son. He justified the foreign number with water damage to his cell phone, which is why he is currently using a replacement device. The mother was unsuspecting about the comprehensible reason. After some irrelevant news, including about the game of the German national soccer team, the supposed son had a request. An urgent transfer is pending, which he cannot confirm at the bank due to the lack of his cell phone. As an exception, hopefully his mother can transfer the almost 4,000 euros for him. He will give her the money back in a timely manner.
Knowing that she was doing her trusty son a favor, the woman complied. She transferred the requested amount to the specified account and sent a copy of the transfer receipt to her filius as an indication of the completion of the transaction. This went, out of habit, to the "old" number. With that the dizziness was noticed. Because of course the son did not complain about a defective cell phone, nor did he ask his mother for a transfer, as he assured him over the phone. The woman filed a complaint the next day. The police contacted the bank and were able to prevent the amount from being debited. Now it is to be determined who is behind the fraud.
The special feature is the contact via the chat, so the police department Wetterau. How the perpetrators in this case could have got hold of the Ober-Mörlen woman's cell phone number has not yet been clarified.
Wetterau.
These days, more and more "wrong" Sparkasse employees are calling citizens in the Wetterau. These claim to follow up allegedly suspicious transfers and to have to synchronize data. The Sparkasse announced that it had nothing to do with these calls. According to the Wetterau police department, the Sparkasse's phone number appearing on the phone display only appeared through technical tricks. In fact, the calls come from fraudsters whose aim is to get hold of personal information. These are supposed to be used for further fraud.
The police advise you to end the call immediately when you receive this type of call. Under no circumstances should information about bank accounts or credit balances be passed on.
Gießen
In a large-scale operation in North, East and Central Hesse, customs checked construction sites for suspected illegal workers. 13 men were arrested who were staying illegally in Germany. In total, around 80 officials in Gießen, Kassel, Fulda and Bad Hersfeld checked more than 250 employees and the business documents of a good 70 construction companies. As the main customs office announced on Thursday in Gießen, the workers arrested on Tuesday are threatened with deportation. According to a customs spokesman, in most cases it was not initially possible to determine who they worked for at all.