{"id":100092,"date":"2024-11-09T22:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/full-stop-in-home-frauds-of-the-elderly-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T22:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T22:45:04","slug":"full-stop-in-home-frauds-of-the-elderly-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/full-stop-in-home-frauds-of-the-elderly-news-norway-overview-of-news-from-different-parts-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Full stop in home frauds of the elderly – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

– Within two hours, they had increased mum’s mortgage and spent NOK 560,000 on watches and cash withdrawals, says Helle Jacobsen. At the end of August, her 80-year-old mother was called by someone pretending to be from the police. The person on the other end said there were problems with her bank and that someone was trying to steal money from her. – There was only one problem, and that was that there was some technical error with her phone. So they had to go to her house and do a brief technical examination of her phone and bank cards, the fraudster explained. Fraudsters pretended to be from the police and trooped up to the door of Helle Jacobsen’s 80-year-old mother. Photo: Kjartan R\u00f8rslett \/ news – It has stopped In a number of cases, news has discussed the explosive increase in home fraud involving vulnerable elderly people. – At worst, we experienced five cases a week in September this year. It’s a pretty massive number, says Sebastian Takle, who heads DNB’s cyber crime centre. In recent months, the police and banks have worked hard to destroy the fraudsters who enrich themselves at the expense of vulnerable elderly people. – The overall effect has led to a four-week period where there were almost no home visits registered in our systems, says Takle. Sebastian Takle in DNB. Photo: Truls Alnes Antonsen \/ news The Oslo police district, where by far the most frauds of this type have occurred, also sees the same trend. – It has stopped, states police inspector and business contact Christina Rooth. Over 30 home visits this autumn In September and the beginning of October, around 20 people were arrested for elderly fraud in the Oslo area. 14 of them were detained. – The main hypothesis is that these are several criminal networks involving people in Norway and abroad, says police attorney Alexander Bjorvatn \u00d8ien. In total, the police uncovered 36 fraudulent home visits to the elderly in the same period. – We have had a coordinated effort against perpetrators and fraud circles that have been identified. We have acted quickly, arrested many and secured good evidence. It has had an obvious effect, says the police attorney. The map below shows where fraud on the elderly was committed in Oslo and the surrounding area during the first ten months of the year: The red dots show the areas where, according to the police, fraud on the elderly was committed in the Oslo area from January to October. The points are set generally for an area, and do not show the specific addresses where the frauds are supposed to have taken place. When \u00d8kokrim presented its threat assessment in October, they also pointed to an increase in this type of fraud cases. – The fraudsters pretend to be the police and impose a fictitious duty of confidentiality on them to avoid them contacting others. During their stay, their bank accounts are drained of money, the threat assessment states. Earning less per case How much the fraudsters get from each individual home visit varies widely. The police have previously said that elderly people have been defrauded of amounts between NOK 50,000 and 500,000 in the Oslo area this year. In the past, fraudsters conned an average of NOK 100,000 per home fraud, according to DNB. Now the average amount the elderly are cheated out of has been reduced to NOK 30,000. – It has probably forced them to work a lot more, which means that the frequency of visits has increased. We believe the criminals have had to work more for less money, and with a higher risk of being discovered, says Sebastian Takle. Helle Jacobsen, who experienced her mother being defrauded of large sums, thinks it is good that the police prioritize these cases. – Especially because they came home to these vulnerable people. Then I also realize that this is not the last we see of fraud. Here we must be vigilant. DNB and the police: This is what you should do to deal with such fraud attempts Contact the police on 112, if someone answers the door and says they are from the police and that they need your BankID, your bank cards or your mobile phone. Contact your bank immediately if you suspect that you may have been the victim of fraud or you have provided information that you think others can use to gain access to your money Feel free to hang up if the inquiry you receive feels uncomfortable, stressful or strange . ALWAYS hang up if you are asked to enter your BankID. Never give your BankID information to the police or the bank, or transfer money at the request of others. The bank or the police will never ask you for this. Please be aware that the police and bank telephone numbers can be misused, so that it can appear as if these actors are calling Contact the official number of the bank if you are in doubt, do not call back a number you have been provided by those who call you. Published 09.11.2024, at 23.32
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