Livorno: Information meeting of the force with the citizens at the church of Santa Teresa di Calcutta

The Carabinieri have been dedicating a long time on a national scale, particular attention to the phenomenon of scams against the elderly. About that, the Provincial Carabinieri Command of Livorno, in close continuity with the operational directives shared by the Committee for Public Order and Safety at the Prefecture of Livorno, conducts a widespread information campaign throughout the territory to spread, as much as possible, knowledge of this phenomenon laying the foundations and providing tools to potential victims to prevent the evolution of criminal dynamics as well as defend themselves by adopting all the precautions deemed appropriate in light of constant monitoring and analysis of the phenomenon.

In this context the Carabinieri Company of Livorno has held an open meeting with the citizens of Livorno at the church of Santa Teresa di Calcutta to Salviano and aimed especially at the older population, given that, in this specific case and from an analysis of the crime in its specificity, it emerges that the chosen victims in most cases concern a group of people such as the elderly or single women.

On this occasion The Commander of the Carabinieri Station of Ardenza provided the participants with some suggestions, also through the distribution of information brochures, to better protect citizens and the elderly from this type of scam. This was the theme of the information meeting, aimed at providing important information on how to behave in the face of possible scams both inside and outside your own homes, and above all, on how to unmask criminals. In any case, two pieces of advice apply: do not let strangers into your home and, if in doubt, call 112 immediately. The carabinieri then called some suggestions for preventing scams and frauds which are the subject of meetings now organised on a regular basis with the citizens of the province of Livorno in the various municipalities.

In particular, During negotiations it is advisable to use direct communication tools, such as telephone calls, which are more easily traceable than simple messages via social networks and to verify, even via the web, the real presence of companies or resellers. In case of doubt, you can always contact one of the 27 Carabinieri Stations in the Province of Livorno to expose your suspicions and verify any doubts. The recurrence of different types of scams requires recalling the precautions and measures that The Carabinieri of Livorno recommend in case of doubts and/or lack of knowledge of the interlocutor from whom you are approached for any type of agreement or request in which the request to carry out an operation or a payment emerges, even and above all with means other than the use of cash, in particular the use of electronic payment instruments.

In this regard in the above cases, As soon as you have suspicions, the advice is to be extremely careful, not to open the door to strangers who show up at private homes, to be wary of appearances and above all to limit your confidence on the Internet. In this perspective therefore, always pay maximum attention, but above all, contact the Carabinieri with confidence in case of suspicion, calling 112 to make an immediate report, as well as consult the site Carabinieri.it in which The main types of scams and how to recognize them are illustrated, since the techniques adopted by scammers, however sneaky and imaginative, have recurring patterns and identifying them is the first step in defending yourself.

In case of receiving calls from landline or mobile numbers with prefixes or numbers compatible with the sender, for example from institutional offices or barracks, since currently frequent phenomena of cloning of already assigned numbers, It is good practice to hang up, then close the suspicious conversation and call the number back in order to confirm that you are not dealing with yet another unknown scammer.