“Ma’am, your niece caused an accident in Veneto. You need money immediately to sort things out”: another scam against elderly people in the Agrigento area.
“Your nephew is responsible for a serious accident, 12 thousand euros are needed or he will end up in prison”: 92-year-old scammed
This time the victim is an eighty-year-old from Santa Elisabetta who opened the door of her home to an elusive emissary who informed her that her niece, actually resident in that city in Northern Italy, immediately needed money to remedy a road accident in which she had been involved.
They pretend to be lawyers or policemen and have gold and cash delivered: it’s a flurry of scams on the elderly
“Hello, they made fraudulent transfers and you must authorize us to block them”: account drained
The elderly woman then handed over gold and jewels that she had at home and kept on her person as well as an ATM card with the pin code that the fraudster used to withdraw the money.
The woman then filed a complaint, the video surveillance images on the streets of the town would have immortalized it quite clearly.
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