Tychy. He heard what the senior was talking about and stopped the car immediately.

The 70-year-old from these believed that her savings were threatened and must for some time pass on to “policemen”. The taxi driver who was carrying her heard the conversation and quickly combined the facts. Without the knowledge of the woman, he informed about his suspicions of real policemen and stopped, pretending that the car had failed.

Last week, a “policewoman” called a woman, who warned her of cheaters. She informed the 70-year-old that the only chance to save her savings was to pay them from the bank and transfer them to “policemen”. Of course “only for the duration of the raid behind the fraudsters.”

The scared senior went to the bank, from where she paid 34,000 zlotys. An employee of the facility asked why a woman cash. The 70-year-old said that she must settle personal matters. When the senior realized the first part of the plan, the alleged officer contacted her again. This time she ordered her to get into the taxi. When she got to Mikołów, she received another instructions: change to the second taxi.

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He unfolded the triangle and pretended that the car had failed

“A taxi driver, seeing a nervous, shaken 70-year-old and hearing her telephone conversation, immediately took on serious suspicions. He quickly realized that an older woman probably fell victim to fraudsters and to gain time, he went down the side of the road, explaining that the car was crashed. Then he got off the taxi, he spread the taxi, the warning triang By pretending to check something under the engine cover, he informed about the whole event of policemen, “the Poviat Police Headquarters in Tychy informed.

When the patrol only arrived, real policemen explained to the 70-year-old what happened. The fact that a woman has not lost savings is due to a watchful taxi driver.

Seniors lose tens of millions of zlotys a year

Fraudsters often take seniors. To extort money, they use various ways. – They usually use old phone books, where there are so -called old names, such as Stanisława, Wiesław – said an operational officer from the Provincial Police Headquarters in Krakow in “Facts”.

Training and a preventive meeting with seniors or their families do not help, to which police officers also appeal. – We also reach younger people. That is, to children, to the grandchildren of our seniors, that they talk to the elderly, talk to their loved ones on an ongoing basis – said the subinsp. Joanna Węgrzyniak from the District Police Headquarters in Warsaw.

Unfortunately, all the time – despite the warnings and training – fraudsters are effective. Every year, seniors lose a total of several dozen million zlotys in Poland.