QUIRKY WORLD ... Fraudsters preying on elderly in phone scam

Last week’s incident in the eastern canton of Graubuenden was a new twist on an old trick of getting elderly people to send money to a supposed favourite grandchild in trouble, police said.
“Be suspicious of supposed police who call speaking high German,” a police statement advised residents of the region, where many speak German and Romansch dialects very different from the ‘Hochdeutsch’ (high German) spoken in Germany.