Fake policemen managed to take 3,6 million francs (3,25 million euros) from a Zurich citizen, convincing her that they were protecting her from thieves who, in collusion with her bank employees, wanted to steal that money from her.
According to the police, the thieves had been preparing for this fraud for months.
The first contact was made in November when a woman pretending to be a police officer explained to the victim that the police were allegedly investigating a network of thieves who colluded with bank employees to take money. The woman was then told that her money was also a potential target for thieves.
In the following months, the woman received phone calls every day from the thieves who told her not to pass on the information to anyone so that the investigation would not be compromised.
The thieves then demanded that the Zurich resident regularly transfer certain sums of money to them electronically in order to supposedly keep it safe.
In the end, the police discovered that the woman gave the thieves a total of 3,6 million francs (3,25 million euros) over the course of several months.
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