Fake cops steal $3.7m from Swiss woman

Fraudsters posing as police officers stole 3.3 million euros ($3.7 million) from a Swiss woman, Swiss media reported yesterday. A female suspect first contacted the victim in Zurich in November, posing as an officer who claimed to be investigating a network of thieves, according to the ATS news agency. The woman was told that employees at her bank were planning to rob her. They then instructed her to transfer her assets to a new account through a series of payments, in order to protect her savings from being stolen by her own bank.