Crotone: He pretends to be a policeman and an elderly fraud, arrested with an accomplice

Crotone, the victim’s daughter discovers the scam and contacts 112

He pretended to be a policeman and called an elderly woman from Crotone demanding money and valuables to avoid the arrest of her daughter involved in a road accident. The scam, according to a now sadly consolidated model, however, in this case was not successful thanks to the promptness of the victim’s daughter who contacted the emergency number 112 reporting the incident and allowing the arrest of two people aged 27 and 19, both of Neapolitan origins. To avoid arrest, the victim of the scam was asked for money and valuables that a ‘colleague’ of the alleged Army soldier would come directly to collect. Which then happened. What blew up the two’s plans was the promptness of the victim’s daughter who immediately realized what was happening by turning to the Carabinieri of the Crotone Company who, once the scam was over, stopped the two perpetrators a short distance from the house. , while they were inside their car. The valuables that the woman had handed over were found in the possession of the two, worth a few hundred euros.