The woman’s acquaintance with the mysterious man began in November 2023. He pretended to be a British soldier. He wrote to a resident of Puck and assured her that for security reasons they could not call each other. This is not the only such case in Poland.
She started a relationship with a “British soldier”. She lost 75 thousand. zloty
Press officer of the District Police Commander in Puck that the man lied to the 69-year-old woman, claiming that he was in the north-eastern part of Africa, in Somalia and could not endanger other soldiers, therefore they could not contact the soldier by phone, but could only write on messenger. She treated him like a fiancé and trusted that he would come to Poland. — She transferred money to the bank account he indicated, enabling her to meet a British soldier. A 69-year-old woman from Puck County paid for, among other things, a private jet, car rental and fuel. The woman transferred funds amounting to approximately PLN 75,000 to the criminal in six bank transfers. PLN – said Asp. pcs. Joanna Samula-Gregorczyk.
We still fall for soldier scams. In January 2023, the 50-year-old transferred PLN 70,000. PLN for a German jet
The 69-year-old is not the only victim of “” fraud. in January 2023, she reported that a 50-year-old resident of the Jarosław district was deceived in a similar way. She gave PLN 100,000 to a man pretending to be an American soldier. zloty. The fraudster claimed that he had been shot and that he urgently needed money because he was going to the operation in a week and might die. He convinced her to write to the commander, pretending to be his wife, and persuade him to take someone else with him on the trip. The 50-year-old received information that the commander agreed to replace her “husband” with someone else, but it would cost PLN 30,000. zloty. She decided to choose a soldier from Germany because he was the cheapest and paid the money. Another 70 thousand she transferred it to a German jet that would bring her loved one home.
Source: Gazeta
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