An 88-year-old man was attacked on Saturday by two women who acted as home care staff. That thieves occur as someone else is not a new trick. With a chat trick or if necessary, they try to penetrate and bring valuables. In this way people were more told.
By an ‘energy company’
It is fairly easy for criminals to disguise themselves as an employee of an energy company. With a yellow vest and work gloves, they come across as convincing and they will be inside you. It happened to a 75-year-old man from Breda in 2016, who was threatened with a knife and had to hand over his bank card. In 2016, a similar robbery in Helmond descended fatally for an 86-year-old victim.
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Plumbers
Last year a 77-year-old woman in Oosterhout was attacked by four men who pretended to be plumbers. With coarse violence they looted a safe. The woman was injured and had to be taken to the hospital.
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Fake agents
Recently, the number of reports from thieves that occur as a police officer has increased. In this way, scammers try to gain the confidence of their victims, so that they hand over their expensive things. The tactic is now applied so often that the police fear that the confidence that people have taken in them.
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Parcel deliverer
And parcel deliverers cannot always trust you. In 2017, the municipality of Eindhoven warned of this type of scammers. Unsuspecting post -recipients were told that an amount would still be open, because a package could not be delivered earlier. The victims then had to pay at the door with their debit card and the fake deliverers quickly changed the pass with another pass.
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