Fraud on the elderly, operations center dismantled in Naples: 3 arrests

Fraud on the elderly: the operations center inside an apartment on the fourth floor in Vico Parrettari was dismantled Market district in Naples.

Fake lawyers and carabinieri suspended by the real carabinieri during a trap phone call to a 72-year-old from Messina. During the detectives’ raid, fake lawyers and carabinieri were on the phone with a woman. “His son caused a car accident and we need money to exonerate him.”

In uniform and in civilian clothes, the real carabinieri from the Borgoloreto station and the Stella operational unit broke into the apartment posing as neighbors, annoyed by the smell of marijuana. They protest loudly and when the door opens the raid starts: they will end up in handcuffs Saverio Ianniello, Domenico De Martino and Roberto Messina.

In the house there is a small call center dedicated to scams targeting the elderly. 10 cell phones were seized, over 1600 euros in cash, a small notebook with the details of the scams in progress, 4 intact SIM cards and a broken one, thrown from the window shortly after the raid. Also seized was one gram of marijuana. The 3 were placed under house arrest and will be charged with attempted fraud. The victim online, the military reconstructed, was a 72-year-old from a small village in the province of Messina.

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