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A 52-year-old man was stabbed to death by his own daughter on Tuesday morning, shortly before the young woman turned against her mother.
The attack was carried out at the family’s house in Beringen, near Schaffhausen, local reports said.
The 21-year-old attacker fled the scene, but later turned herself in at a local police station where she was arrested.
Her 51-year-old mother, who was seriously injured in the attack, was treated by paramedics on site before being airlifted to the hospital, reports said.
A knife that was allegedly used in the attack was seized at the apartment, reports said.
The Swiss government has issued a warning about an increasing number of fake calls purporting to be from police. But there are ways to avoid this scam.
Switzerland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been monitoring the phenomenon of fake calls from alleged police authorities for nine months now.
But in the last three weeks, reports of this scam have almost tripled, the NCSC said, indicating just how widespread it is.
What is this about?
The scam begins with a call coming, allegedly, from police or another Swiss authority.
A voice, which the NCSC describes as ‘robotic’, informs the person who answers the call that their personal banking data is involved in criminal activities, or makes a similar alarming (but false) claim.
According to the NCSC, “it is not a person who calls, but a software The machine randomly tries Swiss phone numbers throughout the day. If the number is invalid, it simply moves on to the next one.”
“By using this software, the number of calls that can be made is virtually unlimited. It could go through practically all the phone numbers in Switzerland in a day,” the Centre adds.
After raising alarm about your bank account, the fake ‘policeman’ will urge you to “press 1” to be put in touch with a human being and obtain more information.
If you do this and, worse yet, divulge your personal data to the caller, you risk having your computer and credit card hacked.
What should you do (and not do) if you get this call?
The most obvious answer is to immediately hang up because, as the NCSC explains, “real police never play recorded phone messages. They also never ask for money or sensitive personal data over the phone.”
To that end, the Centre recommends that anyone receiving this call:
A fake tax refund
While the ‘police scam’ is the latest attempt at extortion reported to the NCSC, it is far from a unique case.
Scores of them are reported to the authorities each year, including the one reported earlier in 2024.
It involved phishing emails about alleged tax refund entitlements.
However, the link in the email leads to a phishing page.
Here too, authorities advise to ignore these emails, not click on the link, and not enter any personal data on the phishing page.
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