Romanian Police: warning regarding fraud methods used by thieves

Today, the Romanian Police is making a very important warning about the methods that thieves are starting to use to trick Romanians into stealing their money, or worse, physically harming them, which is an even bigger problem. big.

The Romanian Police presents below the methods most often used by thieves to trick Romanians, and you must be very careful not to risk falling into their trap and being left without money, or worse, being affected in terms of physical.

"Their imagination has no limits - our caution must be commensurate - we don't let strangers in the house, regardless of the pretexts!

We tell you some methods used by criminals to break into the house:

o "Electricity/gas/water" method: they claim to be representatives of the gas, water, electricity companies and request access to the home for checks;
o The "Detergent" method: fake sellers who knock on victims' doors and offer cleaning products for free or at promotional prices;
o "Rat extermination" method: under the pretext that they are employees of companies that offer rodent extermination services, they try to gain access to the home;
o The "Foreigner" method: the criminals justify that they are not from the locality, say that they have a medical emergency (they usually say that they are foreign citizens and speak Romanian poorly) and do not have Romanian money on them, asking the victims to change them Foreign currency. They take the money and leave a bag as collateral, saying they have currency or valuables and will return;
o The "Beggars" method: people who knock on people's doors beg or ask for a glass of water;
o "Comis voiajor" method: offering for sale, at a "minimum" price, hard to refuse, by street vendors, various products (crockery, cutlery packed in brightly colored boxes and with a corresponding advertisement). In reality, low-quality or counterfeit products are offered for sale at high prices;
o "Collecting funds for sick people" method: victims are approached on the street or contacted directly at home by strangers, who, under the pretext of collecting funds for various religious cults or for social or medical cases, request financial aid, relying on their condition emotional and sensitivity of the victim when it comes to suffering, illness, shortcoming and disability.

Please inform your parents and grandparents – once in the house, criminals can be very dangerous!”