
During the afternoon and evening, the police in Stockholm have worked on a number of scams targeting the elderly.
Some of the scams the police have been working on in the past few hours**
14:11 Nockeby, Stockholm**. A 95-year-old woman has made transfers totaling 20,000 kronor to an unknown bank account over the past few days. This after she received a phone call from a man claiming to work at ICA, saying that she was being targeted by a scam. The woman was thus tricked into logging into her bank and making the transfers.
14:36 Vasastaden, Stockholm. An 80-year-old woman received an SMS saying that Hemfrid would come to her home to clean. The message also included a contact number. The woman had not ordered any cleaning and since she had previously been a victim of a similar incident where the contact number led to scammers, she instead called the police. The police assess the case as an attempt at a scam.
14:46 Björkhagen, Stockholm. An 80-year-old woman is contacted by someone claiming to work at Svea inkasso and talks about a bill. They then pretend to connect her to her bank and a person comes to her home to collect her bank card. The woman loses 40,000 kronor.
16:09 Vasastaden, Stockholm. A 90-year-old man calls the police. He had received a call from an unknown person claiming to represent Nordea and wanted to conduct a digital meeting with the man. The man had therefore logged in with his bank ID and at the request downloaded an app to his computer so that the unknown person could remotely control it. The man later realized he had been targeted by a scammer. On checking, 300,000 kronor was missing from the man's account.
Police classify the crime as gross fraud.
17:16 Södermalm, Stockholm. An 80-year-old woman received an SMS from a cleaning company saying they would clean her home tomorrow. The woman called back on a contact number she thought was fake and questioned that any cleaning would take place. She was told that her guardian had booked the cleaning. But the woman has no guardian and the scammer pretended to connect her to the police where a scammer tried to scare her and asked how much gold she had at home.
Later the woman calls the real police and reports. The crime was never completed as she did not hand over any gold. The police write a report on attempted fraud.
18:00 Salem. An 85-year-old woman was called by someone claiming to work at Svea inkasso. The person said that the woman had lost money and now the police could come to her home to help her with her jewelry. The woman ended the call, but the scammers called back a few times. The woman then calls the real police herself. The police take up a report on attempted fraud.
20:01 Salem. An 85-year-old woman received a phone call from someone claiming to work at a collection agency. The caller said that the woman's card had to be blocked and in order to do so, they asked for the woman's card and code. The phone call was very long (over 1.5 hours) and after this, a person who claimed to be a delivery person from Postnord came to the woman's home and collected her card.
15,000 kronor disappeared from the woman's account before she realized she had been targeted by scammers and blocked the card.