Overview
- The woman in Hamburg’s Rahlstedt district received a late-Thursday call from a man posing as a police officer who claimed there had been burglaries nearby.
- She was instructed to place her jewelry outside her Loher Straße building for supposed safekeeping, and an unknown person later collected the items.
- There was no in-person contact between the collector and the victim, according to the reporting.
- While recounting the incident to her daughter by phone, she experienced a medical emergency; paramedics attempted resuscitation and she died in her apartment.
- Authorities have not identified an official cause of death, are examining any link to the scam, and ask witnesses to call Hamburg police at 040/4286-56789, noting real officers do not collect valuables.