Overview
- A senior in Eching-Dietersheim handed over gold and jewelry worth about €125,000 after a caller posed as hospital staff and claimed her daughter needed an urgent, costly cancer treatment in Switzerland, with a collector taking the valuables before fleeing.
- Ravensburg police warned that callers may imitate relatives’ voices, noting they cannot rule out AI cloning and that short recordings can suffice; in the flagged case the attempt failed when the target said she would go to the hospital.
- Two suspected “fake police” couriers aged 14 and 15 were arrested in Hannover during a staged cash handover, their phones were seized, and inquiries into the organizers are ongoing.
- In Hamburg-Poppenbüttel, an intruder who had earlier called as a purported officer pushed into an 81-year-old’s home and stole jewelry and savings books, with LKA 43 investigating and seeking witnesses.
- Thuringia police reported a WhatsApp investment fraud that cost a sibling pair roughly €110,000, and in a separate case an 88-year-old rejected a €120,000 bail demand after a crash hoax call, prompting further warnings to hang up and verify through known contacts.