“Ma’am, good morning, we’re calling you from the police headquarters. You should come to the barracks to collect a registered letter for your mother”. The phone call, arrived at one Cremonese who lives with his elderly mother on Cadore Street“, it seemed quite strange. The voice on the phone claimed that it could not tell her more for privacy reasons, and so the woman got ready to go to the provincial headquarters in viale Trento e Trieste. It was a neighbor who dissuaded her met on the landing while the lady was waiting for the elevator. “It’s a scam, be careful. Try calling the police.” And so he did, being told that There was no registered letter to collect in the barracks.
A trick that thieves-swindlers are often using lately to drive away the resident and try to deceive the elderly person who remained in the apartment, or even to try to sneak into the house to steal. “When they told me they were the Carabinieri I got agitated, I didn’t understand anything anymore“, said the woman who thanks to her neighbor blew up the criminals’ plans. “In fact, it seemed strange to me, but at that moment I didn’t think clearly.”
There are now countless types of scams devised by those who want to get easy money. The advice is always the same: be careful and if you have any doubts call the police. The real ones.
Sarah Pizzorni
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