No stops. Another pensioner, this time resident in the sports field area of Agrigento, was scammed. It was a man who posed as a lawyer who called her on her phone, telling her about an accident in which her son had been involved. Because if it’s not a fake policeman calling, it’s certainly an equally fake lawyer. And the script, artfully acted, is always exactly the same.
“Your son had an accident and there is an injured woman, 5 thousand euros are needed”: 74-year-old delivers jewels worth 20 thousand
The 84-year-old woman from Agrigento was told that her son had just had an accident and that it was necessary, indeed indispensable, to help him. It seems that the interlocutor was asking for 10 thousand euros. It is certain that the pensioner handed over all the money she had at home: around 7 thousand euros in cash. Money that the poor girl jealously guarded. And it was the fake lawyer who took that money.
The old woman, shortly after letting all that money fall into the hands of the scammer, discovered the truth: no road accident, her son was fine. And at this point, having realized that she had ended up in a trap, she had no choice but to go to the Complaints office at the police station and tell everything to the police. An investigation has been launched. In short, one of many, given that “carabinieri marshal” (or even simply “carabiniere”) and lawyer continue, throughout the province, to defraud the elderly.
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