A new scam attempt in the Novara area with the “fake policeman” technique.
The victim is an elderly woman who heard her home phone ring and was told that her daughter’s car had been used to rob. The daughter was already on her way to the barracks, but in the meantime documents and cash were needed to unblock the procedure and demonstrate that the old woman’s daughter had nothing to do with the robbery.
The scammers kept the woman on the phone for more than half an hour, so as to prevent her from calling other family members and asking for confirmation. Luckily the lady somehow managed to free herself and call her other son on her cell phone, who told her to hang up immediately.
In this case the scammers ended up empty-handed, but there are dozens of cases of similar scams reported in the province of Novara and in the Verbano area which have been successful.
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