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Pachino, pretend to be Carabinieri and steal 22 thousand euros from an elderly woman: two arrests

Arrested a pair of scammers who pretended to be Carabinieri and using the technique of their son's accident, they managed to steal 22 thousand euros from an elderly lady. They then fled and fled to Naples and it is there that they were arrested by their colleagues from the Police.

Pachino (Siracusa), they pretend to be Carabinieri and steal 22 thousand euros from an elderly woman: two arrests

“ Ready, Carabinieri! His son hit a little girl and was arrested. To free him, 10.000 euros are needed to be handed over to a police officer who will soon arrive at his house."
This is the content of the phone call received from an elderly woman from Pachino (Syracuse), who has a son who lives outside the region and she fell in the trap set by two scammers, man, the author of the call, and a woman, fake policeman, who actually carried out the scam.

While the man was holding the old woman on the phone, the woman knocked on the door of the house for the withdrawal of the money that the victim kept in cash at home. Given the availability of money, the scammer raised the bar by claiming that they needed an additional 12.000 euros for the release of his son.

Collected all the money, fake policeman quickly moved away from the victim's house is only at this point did he hypothesize that he was the victim of a scam and called a relative who in turn alerted the Carabinieri at the local station.

The military collected the statements of the elderly victim, obtaining the description of the scammer, and they took video surveillance images of the area by identifying the precious license plate number of the car used by the couple.

I Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit they tracked down the car which in the meantime had boarded a ferry heading towards Naples where colleagues from the Naples Central Company waited for the landing to search the couple and the car they use. The money was thus found and the couple of fake policemen have been arrested.

The Carabinieri remind you that no member of the police force will ever ask for money to anyone and urges potential victims to always contact 112 should such requests be received.

Pachino, si fingono Carabinieri e rubano 22mila euro ad una anziana: due arresti

 

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