police officer: The caller explains that there has been a rash of burglaries in your area, according to Deutsche Welle. He feigns concern, asks whether you keep cash and valuables at home - and offers to safeguard them for you. Imagine the following scenario: the phone rings, you pick up and the man on the other end identifies himself as a police officer. A plainclothes officer is ready to pick them up at the door, he says. The callers are so eloquent that in similar cases, seniors have handed over their entire savings. Seniors are polite and trusting - and they believe in state institutions, so impersonating a police officer is an effective scam, warns Frank Scheulen, press spokesman for the State Office of Criminal Investigation in North Rhine-Westphalia . Victims are ashamed at having been scammed, says Scheulen Eloquent callers Citizens in the city of Cologne have reported 11 calls by scammers posing as police officers since Sunday - a "massive attack," a Cologne police spokesman told DW. They tell potential victims their names show up on a list carried by burglars caught in the area.
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