Overview
- On February 9, elderly residents in Grünwald and Munich’s Maxvorstadt were targeted in separate frauds involving a coercive phone scam and two doorstep trick-thefts.
- In Grünwald, a nearly 90-year-old woman was told her daughter caused a fatal crash and was pressed for a €1,000,000 ‘bail’, then handed over a mid–five-figure cash sum in a white bag to a very slim, dark-clothed man at her garden gate around 16:40.
- Investigators from Kommissariat 61 are handling the ‘shock call’ case and ask anyone who noticed activity near Clemens-August-Straße, Josephsburgstraße, or St.-Michael-Straße to call (089) 2910-0.
- Also in Grünwald, an over-80 man was duped by a supposed carpet seller who entered his apartment and later a jewelry box worth several thousand euros was found missing; the suspect is described as about 60 years old, 170 cm, with gray-mottled hair and a dark blue three-quarter coat.
- In Maxvorstadt, a man posing as a carpet seller ‘cleaned’ rugs with spray before stealing jewelry valued in the low five figures; he is described as about 40 years old, 160 cm, stocky, black-haired, and speaking High German, with Kommissariat 55 leading both trick-theft probes via (089) 2910-0.