Police warn of arrest warrant fraud on the phone

The phone rings, and a supposed representative of the authorities reports when losing weight. This plays recordings in English, which should make the victims of this telephone attempt to fraud know that there is an arrest warrant against them.

The police are describing an increasingly popular fraud mesh, of which they warn in a press release on Thursday morning. According to the officials, attempts to fraud of this kind have recently been reported. The main thing is to tempt the victim to make transfers or to hand over valuables, and to get personal information or bank details.

It is particularly perfidious about the scammers’ procedure that, according to the police information of the so -called « Call ID Spoofing », they can use false telephone numbers. This faks the victim to receive a call from a Luxembourg mobile phone number or an official authority, but this is not the case.

The police are therefore asking to inform and clarify older people in their own and similar fraud stitches in order to minimize the number of successful calls. If you have already caused damage from a fraud call, please want to a police control center of his choice turn around.