They tried, but the elderly woman didn't fall for it and, after calling the police, allowed them to identify the scammer.
It happened in Baiano, in the province of Avellino, where a fake courier called a woman in her eighties telling her that she would soon have to deliver a package intended for her nephew with a cash on delivery payment of 1.350 euros.
The old woman said to wait for him but immediately called 112. A patrol of plainclothes carabinieri moved near the house and, upon arrival, stopped the 'courier'. He is a twenty-year-old resident in the province of Naples who was reported for attempted fraud.
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