Trick theft

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Trick theft is a theft in which the removal is concealed by deception , i.e. the removal is not recognizable as such for the person concerned.

Methods

The trick thief uses various methods to distract, deceive, or mislead the victim in order to break custody. This can u. a. by pretense

  • an emergency with an appeal for helpfulness,
  • of helpfulness,
  • authorization to enter the apartment or
  • a personal relationship

respectively. Since seniors are often affected by trick theft, the police try various preventive measures through initiatives and advice.

Germany

Forms of trick theft

The forms used in trick theft are many and can vary by region. The perpetrators usually manage very quickly to adapt to current political or social developments. They often take up specific topics that are known from media coverage in order to give their claims credibility: For example, if politics calls for increased taxation of bank deposits, they tell their victim with reference to newspaper or television reports ("You surely have nice to hear ... ") to know" from a reliable source "that this would actually be introduced. Since the victim remembers the corresponding media reports, he believes the perpetrator and lets him persuade him to deposit his savings elsewhere, whereby the perpetrator steals them. The perpetrators also use newly issued regulations in this way by pretending to have to monitor compliance with the new regulations.

The following methods are particularly common in Germany:

Access to the apartment / theft

  • Note trick: the perpetrator asks for a slip of paper so that he can write something down. Variant 1: a message for the neighbor, variant 2: purchases for the neighbor. The victim writes, is distracted. An accomplice sneaks into the apartment and steals jewelry.
  • Water glass trick: the perpetrator asks for a glass of water. Variant 1: The victim gets a glass of water. An accomplice sneaks into the apartment and steals. Variant 2: an allegedly pregnant woman asks for a glass of water. When entering the apartment, she leaves the door ajar. An accomplice steals.
  • Cloth trick: the perpetrator presents silk scarves and distracts. An accomplice sneaks into the apartment and steals.
  • Landfill trick: A landfiller works without accomplices. He wants to find hiding places for money and jewelry. He watches where elderly people go or stand by the window of an apartment. Initial questions are: “How are you?” “Guess who I am?” Because of vacation, the perpetrator allegedly wants to deposit sums of money with his victim. He steals the money or jewelry deposited there.
  • Heating reader trick: The alleged heating reader gives the victims instructions to turn several thermostats on the radiators. Variant 1: The perpetrator rummages through the cupboards because he supposedly needs something sharp. Variant 2: He wanders through the rooms and steals.
  • Waterworks / burst pipe trick: The perpetrator claims that there was a burst pipe in the house / in the street. Variant 1: He sends his victim to the bathroom and asks to let the water flow for ten minutes and to watch. Variant 2: He asks the water to be made sterile with the help of a pointer, with which the victim has to aim at the water pipe. During this time he steals valuables from the apartment.
  • Smoke detector tester trick: an alleged controller gains access to the apartment and steals on the tour.
  • Care service provider trick: an alleged employee of a care service provider gains access to the apartment. Variant 1: It distracts by asking whether the victim can change money. Variant 2: She claims there are inconsistencies in the medical record. Variant 3: The perpetrator poses as a representative of the usual caregiver and asks the person in need of care to lie down on the bed. An accomplice enters the apartment unnoticed and steals jewelry.
  • Trouble-shooting trick : Alleged telephone technicians, bank employees, tax investigators, gas readers, inspectors for the cable connection want to fix alleged malfunctions in the apartment / breakdowns with checking cards or accounts / collect additional payments. Requested cash payments or valuables from the apartment are lost.
  • Burglar trick: perpetrators intercept older people in front of the apartment door and claim it was broken into. You would have to check this out. If the perpetrators are let into the apartment, they search it and take money and jewelry with them.
  • Police officer / civil investigator trick: the perpetrators claim to be police officers, but are not. They deceive their victims with "ID" and "police hat" and research about their fraud. Variant 1: You penetrate the apartment to search the rooms. They steal in the process. Variant 2: Two alleged police officers talk to the victim in the apartment. One of them asks to use the toilet and then searches the apartment. Option 3: You supposedly want to look around the apartment for counterfeit money. These trick thieves can be exposed by checking their ID card and, if necessary, by calling 110 to clarify their identity.
  • Bank employee trick: Variant 1: An alleged bank employee pretends to have to check the EC card due to technical problems. He has the account number and PIN entered into a tablet he has brought with him. The account will then be emptied. Variant 2: Allegedly paid counterfeit money is secured.
  • Handbag trick: a perpetrator steals the handbag. His accomplice pretends to be a policeman who is supposed to document and clarify the theft of a handbag. The alleged police officer steals valuables from the apartment.
  • Bag carrier trick : This trick usually falls victim to older people who can no longer carry well. The perpetrator offers help with carrying bags or walkers. Variant 1: He steals valuables that are inside. Variant 2: Perpetrator goes into the apartment, victim is distracted in the apartment, accomplice steals valuables.
  • Fundraising trick: Fundraising for fantasy organizations collect money and keep it.
  • Apartment key trick: Immediately upon leaving the apartment, the victims are distracted by a conversation with the perpetrator. Meanwhile, the apartment door key is stolen unnoticed. Then the apartment is searched.
  • False faith healer: A ritual with money is supposed to loosen a curse that is supposedly on the victim. The money is cleverly stolen during the ceremony.
  • Horror ambassador : The victim is told by an alleged ambulance worker or nurse that the partner (or friend, relative, neighbor ...) had an accident and was admitted to hospital seriously injured. The resulting confusion and excitement is used for theft.
  • Cash reimbursement trick: the perpetrators announce the repayment of electricity, water, gas bills in cash. This should be handed over in the apartment. They use their stay in the apartment to steal valuables.

Distraction on the street / theft

  • Jumping trick: offender bumps into, distracts and steals from the victim.
  • Antanztrick , also Ronaldo trick: Hopping or dancing during the approach necessary for the theft, mostly in groups of two or three perpetrators and in the case of an alcoholic victim in entertainment districts, in the vicinity of discos or at street parties etc. Also during the sexual assault on New Year's Eve In 2015/16 in Cologne, where property crimes also occurred, this trick is said to have been used en masse.
  • Pollution Trick: The perpetrator appears to accidentally soil the victim's clothes. While he then tries to wipe off the dirt, he steals objects from the victim's jacket without being noticed.
  • Flower trick: a stranger or several strangers greet the victim in a seemingly friendly manner, hug him, and possibly stick a flower on his lapel. Because of the distraction and pleasant surprise, the victim does not notice that their wallet is being stolen.
  • Healer trick: Variant 1: The perpetrator speaks to the disabled victim and gesticulates with his "healing hands" and steals unnoticed. Variant 2: The false healers want to free the victim from a curse. As proof of the curse, they have the victim break a freshly bought egg. A black liquid emerges from the broken egg. The victim should hand over cash to the healers. The money is wrapped in a cloth by the false healers. The victim is asked to wear the cloth, which by trick only contains scraps of paper, on their body for a long time. The money is lost.
  • Currency exchange trick: Variant 1: The perpetrator asks to change coins. While the victim is rummaging in the change pocket of his wallet, the perpetrator steals bills from his wallet unnoticed. Variant 2: The perpetrator asks to change a banknote. He holds the bill over the bill compartment and steals bills from the victim's bill compartment.
  • Lost money trick: the target is people who have just withdrawn money from the bank. The perpetrator throws coins on the street unnoticed. With the hint, "You have lost money", the perpetrator helps to collect it and meanwhile steals from his victim from a jacket or handbag.
  • Cat trick: One of the perpetrators draws the attention of a woman waiting in her car to the fact that there is a cat under her car. As soon as she gets out to investigate, another perpetrator steals the woman's handbag lying in the passenger or back seat.
  • Podolski trick: In the trick that is widespread in Cologne, the victim is asked to play along (paper ball).
  • City plan trick: The victim is asked for directions by an allegedly unfamiliar perpetrator who is waving a city map. Variant 1: While the victim bends over the map, the perpetrator then steals things from the bag that is hanging on the victim's arm under the city map. Variant 2: A car approaches and stops. The passenger holds a city map in his hand and is shown the way to the nearest hospital for the injured brother. The alleged sister of the injured man jumps out of the rear passenger door and hugs the victim from behind, thanks and steals from the victim.
  • Train ticket trick: Option 1: The perpetrator offers the victim a train or bus ticket that is no longer required free of charge. If the victim accepts the ticket, the perpetrator suddenly demands a supposedly small contribution to the cost of the ticket. If the victim then looks for change in his wallet, the perpetrator steals larger bills unnoticed. Variant 2: The perpetrator asks the victim for fare for a trip to a suburb, which he absolutely has to go to. The money is lost. Option 3: The offender misses a remaining amount of 50 cents at the ticket machine. He fiddles with the machine, but does not buy a ticket. The money is lost.
  • Tax-on-bank-deposit-trick: the perpetrator approaches older people on the street and claims that deposits at the bank will soon be taxed higher. He gets his victim to withdraw money from the bank and immediately steals from the victim (even from his apartment).

Others

  • Begging trick: the perpetrator holds out a sign to the victim in bars, for example. While the victim reads the sign, the perpetrator steals valuables from the table under the sign.
  • Supermarket trick: Variant 1: The victim is asked by strangers in the supermarket where certain items are. While they let their gaze wander over the shelves, the perpetrator grabs valuables from pockets hanging over the shopping cart. Variant 2: The victim is asked to read out the explanation on a product. Purse or handbag are stolen. Variant 3: Women who put their purchases in the trunk of the car in the supermarket parking lot and have previously put their handbag on the passenger seat are distracted by questions. A second perpetrator steals the handbag unnoticed.
  • Police trick - cf. Access to the apartment : The fake officers report that there is a gang of intruders in the area and that the victim's apartment is the target. Therefore, the victim should get his valuables out of the apartment and take them to the nearest police station to safety, they are stolen from him on the street.

Forms of trickery

Around the house

  • Craftsman trick: Alleged craftsmen offer repairs to the roof or apartment at the front door against payment in advance. After the prepayment, they disappear. Variant: In the case of construction work actually taking place in the vicinity, the perpetrators falsely pretend to be employees of the (reputable) company working there and claim to be able to carry out work (e.g. taring the driveway) particularly cheaply with material left on the construction site. Then they disappear with the prepayment or ask for a much higher price after the work is done.
  • Emergency service / controller fraud: Variant 1: an alleged emergency service employee claims that the telephone lines are disturbed. He claims he needs to replace the sockets. He only works pretend to be on the phone jack and is paid in cash for the unwanted service. Variant 2: Alleged smoke detector inspectors roam the apartment and let valuables go with them.
  • Cash on delivery trick: Alleged parcel carriers want to deliver a parcel against cash on delivery, which is supposedly intended for the neighbors, against payment. The content is worthless, the money paid is lost.
  • Carpet trick: the perpetrators present a carpet. They claim that they still have a container with valuable carpets in the bonded warehouse. They would have to redeem this at customs for 20,000 euros. Ask you to display this amount. As a deposit, they leave the worthless carpet behind and disappear. Variation: The perpetrators claim to want to return to their home country after a long stay in Germany. As there would be high customs costs when moving, you would like to sell an antique carpet from an old family property before moving. The carpet is worthless and the supposedly low price is completely excessive.
  • Insurance trick: an alleged insurance broker has the insurance documents shown to you. He demands and collects an allegedly immediately payable premium and disappears.
  • Tax audit trick: two men pretend to be police officers, check the cash in the house and pretend to have to take them with them for further checks. The money and the wrong police officers can no longer be found.
  • Former work colleague trick: The driver of a car stops and asks a pensioner: You are my former work colleague. Where did you work exactly? The pensioner names his previous employer. The fraudster says: I worked there as a warehouse worker. The fraudster claims he has to go back abroad, so he can no longer take his goods in the trunk for customs reasons. He offers worthless, supposedly branded goods at inflated prices. The innocent pensioner is the victim.
  • Church worker trick: He tells us that both of his parents were killed in a traffic accident. He has no money for the funeral expenses. The compassionate people no longer see the money given away.

All about the phone

The action of the tricksters is made easier by spoofing services. The perpetrators can use it to overwrite their own telephone number on the telephone display of the victim called and display an official telephone number instead. The callers select people with first names that are not in use today, referring to older people. The fraudster calls from abroad, the person collecting the sum of money / valuables is in the region (district, district) of the victim.

  • Grandchildren's trick : the perpetrator calls people with older-sounding first names. Variant 1: At the beginning of the conversation, the perpetrator asks the question "Guess who's on it!" As soon as the person called gives a name, for example that of a grandson or close friend, the perpetrator pretends to be that person and, often under massive psychological pressure, asks his victim to provide financial help for an important personal matter of the relative / acquaintance. This can be for a home purchase or emergency hospital treatment. The victim hands over the promised cash or valuables to a messenger who collects the money for the perpetrator. Variant 2: An alleged daughter speaks into the phone in a tearful, barely understandable voice. She begs the tax office for money for debts. Cash, gold and silver coins that are kept in the house should be picked up by a messenger. The money is lost when you pick it up. Variant 3: During the corona pandemic, callers claim to be sick themselves or that a relative of the person called is sick. You need money. A friend will pick up the money. It is lost.
  • Chain call trick: Variant 1: A resident is preferably called in a retirement home, the spouse is still in debt. If the information is that he has died, an accomplice calls. He pretends to be an employee of the cemetery administration and demands money. Variant 2: A detective (variant 6 there) or the like requests a further payment after an earlier payment due to a prize call .
  • Shock call trick: The caller confronts the called party with the fact that a relative is in an emergency. Pressure is built up: only a deposit of several thousand euros, which is immediately picked up by trustworthy employees, can prevent this. The emergency situation is made up. Variant 1: the relative would go to prison, variant 2: the relative is seriously injured and urgently needs an operation.
  • Police / police trick (see the one without a phone ): A (fake) police officer (or detective, Bundesbank employee, public prosecutor) calls. Variant 1: "Pick up" - (a) The money in the bank is no longer safe. It will be determined. It should not be discussed with anyone, not even with the bank's employees. The money must be withdrawn and handed over to the alleged police officer for security. (b) There are burglaries in the area. A list of burglars also includes the name of the person called and a list of valuables. Money must be withdrawn from the bank. This, the EC card with PIN and the endangered valuables would have to be temporarily handed over for security. (c) Called the fake phone number 110. The money is no longer safe due to a corrupt bank employee. It had to be picked up and handed over to a messenger for security. The messenger disappears with the money, it is lost. - According to Arno Helfrich, Commissariat for Prevention and Victim Protection at the Munich Police Headquarters , the police trick calls come from call centers in Turkey. Whole “telephone waves” hit Munich on some evenings. Overall, there was recently (as of the beginning of 2019) an "exorbitant" increase in the number of tests in German-speaking countries. In 2017 there were over 3000 in Munich with around 40 successes and damage of more than four million euros. - (d) There would be an increased volume of counterfeit money. The victim's money must be picked up and checked. Variant 2 : An alleged police officer calls that the niece has had a serious accident and wants to speak to the person called. A woman sobs and cries on the phone but doesn't say a word. The alleged policeman says that the judge can only avert the imminent detention on bail. Variant 3: An earlier payment ("advance payment") in the context of calls for a prize is said to have been a criminal offense, worse consequences are to be averted by further payments ( chain call ).
  • Competition trick: A (self-appointed) notary XY or a lawyer calls and informs about an alleged win . Variant 1: Advance fraud - 1a  Then taxes would have to be transferred in advance to the account of a real tax office Z. Then the person called is asked to make a cash payment to an account abroad via direct transfer. That money is lost. Option 1b: A kind of insurance tax must be paid in advance by sending cash to a foreign address. The prepayment is lost and there is no profit. Variant 1c: ... "processing fee" ... variant 1d: chain call : Police Trick variant 6. Variant 1 e: profit is allegedly paid the next day. For this, a security of, for example, 900 euros must be handed over as an advance. Variant 2: In order to be able to transfer an alleged (still to be drawn) money prize (e.g. the equivalent of a raffled car), the account number is required. This allows callers to simulate a SEPA direct debit mandate for direct debits from the account, which can be canceled, but only with sufficient care and, under certain circumstances, with processing fees ( see incorrect debits ). Variant 3: In order to "retrieve" the prize, a call to another number is allegedly required (see section "Charge trap" ).
  • Lottery trick: Allegedly, no money was transferred for a lottery game for several months. The phone fraudster threatens a lawyer and debt collection company and asks them to provide bank details. Money is being confiscated without authorization. Alternatively, allegedly only one payment can be used to avert fraud proceedings against the victim.
  • Incorrect debits ( data theft ): Variant 1: The caller claims to have to research conditions for cheaper contracts on behalf of the electricity supplier. He asks for the meter number and the account number. He can thus sign an undesired contract for the called party. Variant 2: An alleged blocking system for unwanted calls on the telephone / emergency telephone for pensioners is recommended and asked for the bank details. Variant 3: The account number is requested as part of a prize call (variant 2 there). Variant 4: The caller poses as a Microsoft employee who has to install anti-virus software. He has access to his victim's PC and online banking activated and debits. Variant 5: An alleged Sparkasse employee works from home due to the corona pandemic. He asks for the address, telephone number and account details for comparison. The data is misused for incorrect debits.
  • Fees case: from this fall for the victim initially unnoticed exorbitant call charges by value-added services or collect calls per phone fraud to. This can happen, for example, as part of the prize call (variant 3 there).

Prevention

The police give the following warnings:

  • the police never call the emergency number 110 themselves
  • Hang up the phone immediately if fraud is suspected
  • provide no information about bank details, financial or personal circumstances
  • do not let strangers into the apartment
  • no handing over of money / valuables to unknown persons
  • Inform the police at 110 about the attempted fraud
  • Report attempted fraud

Internet platforms

  • Transfer fraud: On sales platforms, cheap articles are offered on condition of prepayment. Variant 1: A private PayPal payment is desired. Private means here without PayPal buyer protection. The goods are not delivered, the money is lost. Variant 2: In times of the corona pandemic, protective masks / protective clothing are offered by strangers against advance payment. The masks never arrive, the money is lost.

By post

  • Fake letters: Fake letterhead from the prosecution stating that they are serving a sentence or paying money. Calls to the telephone number given there lead to high costs due to a technical trick.
  • Incorrect invoice: For services / maintenance work by the municipal utility or the electricity grid operator that may not be charged at all, an amount is requested to be transferred. The transferred amount is lost.
  • Incorrect request to the deceased / in connection with a death: perpetrators take addresses of the deceased from obituaries and send reminders for goods or services allegedly delivered. The relatives pay because they cannot verify the facts or because they are embarrassed about the matter (e.g. for sex articles that are allegedly ordered). Variation: The perpetrators send the relatives an invoice for the entry in a death register , since the letter is officially drawn up, the relatives believe that they are obliged to make such an entry and pay.
  • Fraudulent Travel Prizes: The trip is offered as a prize. When traveling, there are additional costs due to overpriced excursions and factory tours, which create pressure to buy overpriced goods. The additional costs exceed the costs of a normally booked trip.

All about the car

  • Highway gold trick : lack of petrol is simulated. A “gold” ring is given as a deposit for the money requested. The ring is worthless.
  • Test driver trick: the cheater starts talking to random acquaintances. He offers free use of a test car. Before that, taxes and driver training have to be paid for in advance. The deadline for handing over the car has passed. The prepayment is lost.
  • Oldtimer trick: A vintage car that is supposed to be abroad is offered very cheaply on the Internet / in the newspaper. Deposit / prepayment by cash transfer as security or for shipping costs is made a precondition. Time pressure is built up. In reality, the car does not exist (forged documents) and the prepayment is lost.
  • Car breakdown trick : an alleged breakdown car is parked on the side of the road with the hood up. A man and a woman of the breakdown car bring a passing car to a stop by waving. The breakdown driver looks into the engine compartment with the helpful driver. Meanwhile, the breakdown driver steals valuables from the helper's car. The breakdown car is suddenly ready to drive and the perpetrators disappear.
  • Pitying trick : the driver is approached by a person at the car service station, saying they have been attacked, are penniless and need money to travel home. The borrowed money is lost.

At the business checkout

  • Change fraud : Variant 1: The fraudster asks at the cash register to change 40 ten-euro banknotes into two two-hundred-euro banknotes. He counts a wad of 10 euro banknotes on the counter. After the 39th banknote, he apologizes that there is still one banknote missing. To do this, he takes the lower half of the pre-counted bundle of money in his hand without being noticed, puts it in his pocket, takes out a ten-euro banknote and hands it over. Then he pocketed the two hundred euro notes and quickly disappears. The loss for the cashier of the shop is half of the pre-counted 10 euro banknotes. Variant 2: The perpetrators pay at the cash register for a product with a price below 10 euros with a 100 euro banknote and receive the change. Then they cancel the purchase because they saw the product cheaper elsewhere. You count the change and get the 100 euro banknote back. After counting the change, they cover the 20-euro banknotes underneath the 50-euro banknote with their hand and take them.

Criminal law in Germany

In German criminal law , the crime of theft must be differentiated from fraud and extortion . The facts are mutually exclusive (exclusivity relationship). If things are obtained fraudulently, there can be problems differentiating between theft and fraud. A distinction must then be made between the change of custody and the relaxation of custody. Loosening of custody is understood as the short-term surrender of an item based on an agreement while maintaining the spatial proximity. A person can therefore only be punished for theft or fraud or extortion for an act in the material sense.

Differentiation from other offenses

Theft is characteristic of theft, i. H. breaking the custody of others . The fraud, on the other hand, is a self-harming offense, i. H. the victim surrenders something voluntarily because they have been deceived (e.g. about the value of something in return ). The victim consciously has an object ( disposal of property ). With blackmail, giving away is forced through violence or threats with a sensitive evil.

Delimitation cases

An example of trick theft is feigning a seizure (which can only be done by authorized officials ). The victim allows the custody transfer to happen because he believes he has an obligation to do so. However, this group of cases is discussed controversially in law .

Another example is the use of other people as so-called indirect perpetrators who do not know that something that they are supposed to hand over / take out does not belong to the perpetrator, e.g. For example, when someone lets an unsuspecting person pass them a ball that supposedly went over the fence but actually belongs to the owner of the property.

Trick thieves abroad

The ADAC reports annually on the latest methods used by trick thieves abroad, which particularly unsuspecting tourists fall victim to.

Europe

The methods are used not only in southern Europe, but also in northern Europe.

  • Car cracking without any signs of being broken : when the car is locked with a remote control key, the locking process is interrupted by a jammer. Then theft from the unlocked car. Preferred when parking at viewpoints, in the multi-storey car park, on the beach.
  • Tire engraver: Variant 1: A scooter driver / moped driver cuts the tire at the traffic light in the city. He waits for the door to open or follows the car until it stops and steals. Variant 2: The thief stabs the tire at the motorway service station / at the supermarket stop and follows the tourist car until the driver stops. Variant 3: The tire is punctured when filling up at the motorway filling station. An alleged "auxiliary vehicle" is waiting at the next emergency telephone. The helper loads the luggage from the breakdown vehicle and allegedly calls an emergency vehicle. Valuables and cell phones then disappear with the helper.
  • Smoking rear wheel / tire: The holidaymaker is made aware of an allegedly smoking tire and is lured out of the car. Variant 1: The perpetrator pushes the vacationer who wants to look to the side and steals valuables from the interior of the car. Option 2: The wrong helper packs the luggage from the trunk without hesitation in order to change a wheel. Meanwhile, an accomplice steals valuables from the back seat.
  • Break-ins of camper vans: Break - ins threaten to break in on motorway service stations, in supermarket parking lots, in lonely and unguarded overnight spots, in city parking lots, in ferry ports.
  • Bike theft: Bicycles are stolen from the car, from the parking space, when checking in at the hotel.
  • Theft from rental cars: In the rental car parking lot, in residential areas and at lookout points, the trunk is emptied when the holiday maker is absent.
  • Pity scam: Allegedly robbed tourist family asks for money. The money is not repaid.

Preventive measures

Do not stay overnight in motorhomes at motorway service areas. Check the locking of the car manually. Lock the car after a breakdown. In big cities, keep the car locked while driving, do not transport luggage on the seats, open the window only a crack.

France

  • Motorway service station: Option 1: Campers are robbed in their sleep when they sleep at the motorway service station. The caravan door that is locked in the evening is open in the morning, money and valuables are missing. Variant 2: In the presence of the unsuspecting vehicle occupants, the thief grabs the handbag from the unlocked car and flees.
  • Zebra crossing: A man with a simulated leg in plaster of paris and with a crutch forces a tourist car to stop at the zebra crossing. The car doors are thrown open and valuables are stolen. Then the man sprints away with the "leg in plaster".

Italy

  • Motorbike suddenly drives directly in front of a tourist car. This has to slow down hard. The central locking opens automatically. The door is torn open by the perpetrator and the backpack is stolen from behind the passenger seat.
  • Accident trick: Allegedly a camper damaged another car on the exterior mirror. An audible knock and a black line (drawn with a felt pen) on the camper are clues. A "voluntary payment" of 150 euros enriches the fraudster.

Spain

  • Wrong police: a civilian car overtakes the vacationer car. A police trowel "Stop" is shown from the rear window of the car in front. The tourist car is directed to a lonely place. Passports and vehicle documents are requested and checked there. Then the question follows: "How much cash do you have with you?" Then the cash is checked by the fake policeman and put on one side with the papers. The wrong cops drive away with the money and papers.

Long-distance travel

Dubai

  • Overpriced jewelry: When visiting a company, individual holidaymakers are sold expensive jewelry. The seller can be negotiated in price. After paying a deposit on site and transferring the balance from your home country, the jewelry will be delivered to your home country. Variant 1: The jewelry is not the same as seen. Variant 2: The jewelery proves to be overpriced when checked by a jeweler.

Movies

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Trick theft  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on trick theft ( memento of February 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) of the city of Berlin.
  2. ^ Munich initiative against trick theft - MIT
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Geneviève Wood: Tricks: Police warn pensioners. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , November 28, 2002.
  4. ↑ Crook couple. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt , April 13, 2016, p. 2. Author abbreviation (th).
  5. ^ A b André Zand-Vakili: The new lousy grandchildren tricks. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 26, 2015, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Stolen from the elderly. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt , January 27, 2016, p. 2. Author abbreviation (th).
  7. ↑ Detective report Südwest in SWR / SR-Fernsehen on April 1, 2019, 8:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  8. ↑ a b c d Marianne Höhn: How to protect your money. In: TV hearing and seeing , 22/2017, pp. 32–35.
  9. ↑ Detective report Südwest in SWR / SR-Fernsehen on April 1, 2019, 8:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
  10. ↑ Tricksters on the move. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt , December 29, 2015, p. 2. Author abbreviation (th).
  11. ↑ Tricksters pretend to be employees of the nursing service. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 10, 2016, p. 14, author abbreviation (zv).
  12. ↑ a b c d e f Peter Kröger: How to protect yourself from fraudsters. In: TV hearing and seeing , 30/2015, pp. 27–28.
  13. ↑ Con artists intercept seniors in front of their apartment door. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 30, 2016, p. 17. Author abbreviation (ant).
  14. ↑ False officials are silent in court. In: "Hamburger Abendblatt", August 24, 2017, p. 15.
  15. ↑ Four old people robbed - police warn of trick thieves. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 21, 2016, p. 11. Author abbreviation (ant).
  16. ↑ False police officers try to steal from seniors. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 20, 2016, p. 11.
  17. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Marianne Höhn: The new tricks of crooks. In: TV hearing and seeing , 1/2018, pp. 26–27.
  18. ↑ Pickpockets steal door keys from older women. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 27, 2016, p. 11. Source: (dpa).
  19. ^ Alleged healer loots several thousand euros. In: vorsicht-trickbetrug.de
  20. ↑ Düsseldorf police warn of young thieves and their "dance trick". In: nrz.de , January 14, 2014.
  21. ↑ What is behind the "Antanztrick". In: stern.de
  22. ↑ a b Landtag NRW, printed matter 16/6857
  23. ↑ The police are warning. Fraud by false healers. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt, September 11, 2019, author abbreviation (wb).
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