Fraudsters steal cash and bank cards from two Carinthia residents

Fraudsters stole cash from an 86-year-old man in Klagenfurt and bank cards from a 68-year-old woman in Velden, ORF Kärnten reported.

The man had withdrawn cash from a bank on Thursday morning and was walking home when an unknown man offered him a lift. After the pensioner invited him into his home, the stranger asked how much cash he was carrying. The man placed the money from his wallet on the kitchen table, and the suspect took several hundred euros while he was not looking before fleeing.

The suspect is described as about 60 years old and 175 centimetres tall, with short brown hair. He spoke with a Carinthian dialect, police said.

In a separate incident on Tuesday, a 68-year-old woman was distracted by one of two suspects in a supermarket car park in Velden. While she spoke with him beside her car, the second suspect searched her handbag, which was in the open boot, and stole a credit card and a bank card. Several purchases were later made with the cards, causing losses of several thousand euros, police said.