Four charged over phone scam that netted €18,200

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Four people, including a 15-year-old boy, person been identified and charged with scamming an aged woman successful bluish Greece retired of much than €18,000 worth of golden coins and jewellery, constabulary said Thursday.

A constabulary statement said the telephone scammers swindled the woman successful Kilkis successful March, utilizing a communal but effectual ruse. They called her, pretending to beryllium her son’s accountant, and talked her into putting immoderate valuables she had astatine location successful a container outdoors – supposedly to beryllium registered with tax authorities.

The scammers then drove to her location successful a rented αυτοκίνητο and made disconnected with the bag, whose contents constabulary said were worth €18,200.

Police are investigating whether the suspects were progressive successful different akin scams targeting aged oregon different vulnerable people, which stay widespread and remunerative contempt repeated nationalist consciousness campaigns.