by Lauren Owens | 6 Mar 2017 | Polish news
He tried to pull the old “grandchild” trick, but the old lady turned out smarter than expected, and now the 28-year-old conman faces 8 years in prison. On Thursday Leszno duty police received a call from a citizen of Leszno reporting an attempt of...
by Lauren Owens | 20 Feb 2017 | Polish news
Six people, including two leaders of an organised criminal group, have been arrested by the Łódź Police Central Bureau of Investigation (CBŚP). They were selling home heating gas as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). By passing natural gas as LPG the fraudsters managed to...
by Lauren Owens | 13 Aug 2015 | Polish news
This year there have been more than 1,300 “grandchild” scams in Poland. Just in Warsaw scammers have extorted approx. 10 million zł. What is the “grandchild” scam? It’s quite simple really. A scammer skims a phone book in search of a name...
