Würzburg (dpa / lby) – telephone scammers stole a five-digit sum of money from a woman in Lower Franconia. An unknown perpetrator called her on Friday and claimed that her daughter had caused a fatal traffic accident, police said on Saturday. The scammers asked the mother in Würzburg to pay a deposit of 100,000 euros. The woman agreed to deposit a five-digit sum. She later gave the money to a woman who is now being sought by the police.