Loeffel, who is the press spokesperson for the police in the South region, often goes out in the media with warnings about telephone fraudsters. Now he will report to the police an attempted fraud aimed at his own service telephone, reports Today’s Vimmerby.
He sees it as a clear example of how fraudsters often go about their business: For profit and loss, messages are sent to arbitrarily selected people who are of a certain age. In this case, you turn to someone in middle age, who can be assumed to have a child texting their father. The hope from the person making contact is that the conversation will continue on some other number or social platform.
“If I had continued, there would have been a demand in the end for me to hand over a sum,” he says to the newspaper.