San Benedetto, fake accident scam, the victim feels ill while on the phone: helped by his nurse son

SAN BENEDETTO – The telephone scam attempt was not successful this time because the victim felt ill and the criminals were unable to complete the job. Great fear yesterday for a woman alone at home who received a phone call from a man around 1pm.

Posing as a policeman from the local company, the criminal announced to the old woman that her son was dying in hospital due to a road accident, ordering her to go to the hospital immediately to be at his side. A modus operandi used to get the chosen victim out of their home, so as to be able to have free reign and take action to withdraw cash and precious objects from the house, or by going to the home of the defrauded person asking for cash for the lawyer who will handle of the cause relating to the accident. However, upon hearing the news of her son’s serious condition, the old woman collapsed, but as luck would have it, her family member, a nurse from the Madonna del Soccorso, returned home at that moment and, finding her on the ground near the telephone, immediately helped her. avoiding the worst. Once the mother was stabilized, the son immediately went to the police to file a complaint; the military are already at work and are examining the telephone records to trace the number from which the call originated.

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