If the callers do not manage to hang up immediately, the perpetrators use a perfidious way of conducting the call to create a scenario of fear and threat. This causes those affected to pay large sums of money.
These perpetrators often reach their victims in situations where they are preoccupied with other things, such as putting away the shopping, doing the housework or going to bed. And if you are called by fraudsters at such times, you are hardly able to think straight. This is exactly what the scammers are hoping for.
This telephone card is designed to be kept in a clearly visible place near the telephone. This reminds you at the moments described that you should end strange phone calls immediately.
Here are the police's instructions on how to behave in the event of such calls:
- If you receive a call from the police, the emergency number 110 will NEVER appear on your telephone display.
- If the caller claims to be a police officer, ask for their name and call your local police station. Ask whether this person exists at the authority and how you can reach them.
- Do not give unknown persons any information about your financial circumstances or other sensitive data.
- Inform relatives or other trusted persons after suspicious or unusual calls.
- NEVER hand over money or valuables to unknown persons, not even to messengers or alleged employees of the police, the public prosecutor's office, the court or financial institutions.
- Do not transfer any money to authorities, lawyers or similar persons and institutions after such calls.
- If you have received such a call, inform the police immediately via the emergency number 110 and relatives.