Show this video to your elderly relatives

Published 1 April 2024 at 12.12

Domestic. Are you or someone close to you elderly? The police have now produced a video that shows how common telephone scams are carried out.

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Telephone scams increased by 36 percent in 2023. Of the 29,000 reported telephone scams led just over 2,300 calls to a home visit, so-called physical phone fraud or physical vishing.

The victims of crime in phone fraud – regardless of whether it is only via phone or with subsequent home visits – are in most cases older.

The police have previously released information on how to protect yourself against fraud with the aim of empowering crime victims to resist fraud attempts. Among other things, by sending postcards with prevention tips to all households with people over 70.

– Crime is organized with several people acting in sync. As it includes a physical visit to the victim's home, the perpetrators move between different locations. More investigations into the crimes have been able to bring the perpetrators to justice, but the crime continues, says Lotta Mauritzson, crime preventer at the National Fraud Center, on the police's website.

Now the police have produced an information film that shows a physical telephone fraud. In the film, you can follow the entire sequence of events from the first phone call to the perpetrators entering the victim's residence. The film is a play based on real reported crimes.

– We now need everyone's help to spread knowledge about how the physical telephone scams are carried out. If you have elderly people in your vicinity, you can watch the film together, says Lotta Mauritzson.