Marina di Ragusa (RG): 41-year-old Netino reported following the "mirror scam"

Over twenty years of criminal "career" behind him, mainly involving thefts and scams perpetrated far and wide throughout the country. From Syracuse to Mantua, from Trapani to Forlì, from Crotone to Ancona; just a few, these, among the dozens of Italian provinces where a multiple criminal from Noto, arrested several times over the years, hit his victims, especially people of advanced age.

Last foray in chronological order on the coast of Ragusa, the most visited by him among the Sicilian provinces, with his workhorse, the now sadly famous mirror scam. The events in the afternoon of the last day of last February, the script the same as always: intersection between one's own car and that of an unfortunate motorist, simulation of impact between the mirrors with related fake damage and finally immediate request for financial compensation on site, avoiding the intervention of insurance companies. The victim, on this occasion, was a 65-year-old pensioner from Ragusa who, handing over the sum of 150 euros to the scammer, only later realized that she had fallen into the now famous trap.

Having immediately reported the facts to the Carabinieri of Marina di Ragusa, they immediately started investigations which, thanks to the public and private video surveillance images of the surrounding area, allowed the identification of the fraudster and his referral to the Hyblean Judicial Authority for crime of aggravated fraud. The Carabinieri remind all road users to never agree to cash payments in the event of presumed road accidents, always leaving the verification of the real dynamics of the facts to the competent insurance companies by completing the friendly accident report form and, in any case, immediately contact the single emergency number 112 if they suspect they have stumbled upon similar scam attempts.