66- A year-old woman received a call from people who pretended to be police officers and who, in addition to assistance, asked for money, NOVA reported.
After lengthy conversations, the woman from Beloslav trusted everything she heard on the phone and eventually handed over 17,000 BGN and 7,000 euros.
Exclusively for NOVA, the victim told how she fell victim to the scheme and how inventive the scammers were. She hid her identity because she said she feared for her life. "They called me on my home phone and said: "Plumbing, do you have a problem at home"? I said I don't have any and hung up. They called me a second time, at that moment my phone rang, the GSM, and they told me: "Close the home phone, because these are fraudsters,", said the woman.
The man who called the mobile phone introduced himself as an employee of the Ministry of the Interior. "They said that I am threatened and that they have been following me for 3 days and there is a possibility that they will come in and kill me. My whole family is threatened. And I told them: "Okay, what can I do... Better kill me than my children," added the victim.
In order to save her and the children, the supposed policemen demanded money. They made the woman hide the money in her handbag and leave the house with it. She did not doubt their words, and then the instructions continued: "He said so - a civilian policeman will come and say to you: "Greetings from Plamen!"
After the woman handed over the amount to the unknown man, the phone conversation continued. For hours, the voice in the receiver drove her around the city and did not hang up. However, she then decided to go to the nearest police station while the scammer talked to her.
Shortly after, the police began a manhunt and caught the man who took the money. He turned out to be a taxi driver.
"He was hired to carry out a transport service with a shipment to be taken to Romania. The bad thing is that in this case she called much later. Several hours later, when she already suspected that she was the victim of a telephone scam, he had crossed the border and the money was handed over", explained Svetla Zlateva, spokesperson of ODMVR - Varna.
After what happened, the deceived woman says that she is not herself. "Very bad, I can't sleep. As of Tuesday night, I don't know what happened. I can't eat. I experienced this thing so badly that I can't forgive myself for it as long as I'm alive," she says.