Interpol Chase
My friend’s friend, we’ll call her Sara, lived for a while in Germany when my friend, we’ll call her Lily, decided to visit her.
They made a plan for each of the 3 days of the visit, went to a concert, walked, and visited the surrounding smaller towns. It was a great experience. Lily travelled by plane for the first time and found it all interesting. Everything was great until the day of departure.
The plan was for both of them to go back home together. That morning Sarah’s phone rang and she was told it was Interpol calling her. After they asked her if it was her by name, the secretary transferred to another line.
They asked her if she had been to Berlin on a certain date and after she said she had, they informed her that traces of blood and drugs had been found in a car registered to her name. Sara was confused and scared because she didn’t know what it was about. She was indeed in Berlin on that exact day (although she does not live there).
The man she was talking to told her not to panic and not to interrupt their conversation on the phone under any circumstances. They interrogated her for hours, and the departure time for the airport was approaching. During that time, she told various information to him. In the end, he asked her, supposedly for some security reasons (Lily was not present during their conversation), to transfer a certain (large!) amount of money to them, which she did.
Let me remind you, she was confused, she had a little time until the plane's departure, she was in a hurry, and everything got mixed up.
You guessed it, she wasn’t really wanted by Interpol. But a series of events that coincided so well made it work that way. After losing a lot of money she started to think.
When she was in Berlin that day, she probably paid something with a card and threw away the receipt. Anyone could find the paper and read information such as first and last names. In Germany, it is mandatory for the phone number to be registered so that they can find her with that information.
What helped them the most in all of this was that they happened to guess the day she was about to return home and was in such a rush that she couldn’t think rationally.
Of course, after they guessed the exact day of her departure to Berlin and told her to stay on the phone, they bombarded her with a barrage of questions and she was no longer sure of anything.
Realistically speaking, if anyone was told they were wanted by Interpol, I’m not sure how rational they would be thinking at that point. The mention of blood and drugs in the car crash gave the story a dose of drama.
She later said that it was certainly a well-developed plan and network of people because they kept transferring her from one phone line to another.
So folks, if you ever get called by Interpol (although I’m not sure if that’s how they operate), keep in mind that this can happen too.
