Castiglione di Garfagnana: they deceive the victim with the “romance scam”, 2 people reported by the Carabinieri

The military personnel of the Carabinieri Station of Castiglione di Garfagnana, after the complaint filed by the injured party and at the conclusion of the investigations, have identified and reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Lucca on charges of scams a Nigerian man and woman, she is 34 and he is 29.

They would have took advantage of their victim's emotional fragility and by deception they would have taken away from him the total sum of 9.000 €The script describes a modus operandi that is worryingly spreading and which aims to hit mainly lonely and defenseless people through the technique of the so-called scam "ROMANCE SCAM“. This time too, as happens in these cases, the victim had been hooked through a Facebook account and once the friendship was achieved, a prolonged exchange of messages with sentimental phrases and such as to establish between the interlocutors, in fact never met personally, A kind of virtual love affair.

Thus, after a few months the trap of the deception had been sprung, consisting in making the victim believe that in exchange for the execution of two transfers for a total amount of 9.000 euros, should have to lend oneself to have a safe deposit box full of valuables delivered to one's home which would then have constituted the source of wealth from which the couple would have drawn to set up a comfortable future together.

But al failure to arrive of the valuables despite the payment of the sum and to the insistent request for further money, the woman finally opened her eyes, thus deciding to contact the police who after complex investigations managed to identify the two alleged scammers.