Fake Professor Swindled Valuable Jewelry from 83-Year-Old
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An 83-year-old woman in the Braunau district handed over her gold jewelry and watches worth around 70,000 euros to a fraudster.
An unknown person called the woman on Wednesday morning, posing as a professor from a Vienna hospital. He told the Upper Austrian woman that her son was suffering from cancer and needed 280,000 euros for a medication available in Switzerland.
83-Year-Old Lost Jewelry Worth 70,000 Euros to Fraudster
When the woman said she had no money at home, the "professor" told her that he would also accept gold jewelry as payment. Subsequently, the 83-year-old gathered jewelry and watches and handed them over to a stranger in the parking lot in front of her house on Wednesday evening, the police reported.
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