One arrest for phone scam that cost elderly woman €79,000

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A antheral has been arrested successful bluish Greece for alleged engagement successful a telephone scam targeting an aged woman who mislaid currency and jewellery worth a total €79,000, constabulary said Thursday.

A constabulary statement said the scammers phoned the woman successful the town of Katerini connected February 20, claimed to beryllium from the powerfulness institution and urged her to wrap immoderate currency oregon jewellery she mightiness person astatine location successful metallic foil to debar the supposed information of electrocution. 

She was instructed to enactment the bundle connected a wooden table, for insulation, and permission the location doorway open, whereupon constabulary said the suspect walked successful and removed it.

Police are trying to place the suspect’s accomplices, and to spot whether they were progressive successful different akin scams.

Such telephone scams targeting vulnerable radical are very communal and effective, contempt wide publicity and repeated constabulary nationalist consciousness drives.

Two much radical person been arrested for akin offenses successful the bluish areas of Orestiada and Pella, constabulary said Thursday.