All good things come in threes, but this time the third heist went awry. The elderly woman from Colleferro, 88 years old in June, had already dodged the same gang: a fake lawyer, a fake accident involving her nephew, and a demand for money and gold.
Thanks to the neighbor and the Carabinieri, the affair ended with a 43-year-old Neapolitan woman reported and banned from the municipality for two years. Yesterday the phone rang again: "Grandma, it's your grandson, Mom's account at the post office is blocked, I need money and jewelry right away."
She immediately realizes that it's a rerun of the film she's already seen, pretends to play along, and with the other phone she alerts her daughter, who calls 112. In an instant, the apartment becomes a perfect trap.
The scam courier arrives, a 45-year-old Neapolitan with a good-guy face, knocks, enters, reaches for the envelope... and finds his wrists gripped in handcuffs by the Carabinieri of the Colleferro Operational Unit.
In the pocket: jewelry, cash, and two hot cell phones. The rapid investigation, in tandem with colleagues from Monterotondo, leads to a hit: the same individual, just hours earlier, had already cleaned out an 84-year-old woman from Mentana using the same script. The stolen goods were recovered and ready to be returned.
The Velletri investigating judge confirmed the arrest for attempted aggravated fraud and receiving stolen goods, imposing a mandatory residence requirement on the 45-year-old and a curfew from 20 p.m. to 7 a.m.
I police They thank their grandmother for checkmating them and remember: a well-timed emergency call is worth more than a thousand armored locks. The war against senior citizen scams continues, blow by blow.
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It's truly incredible how this grandmother managed to avoid the scam. Her quick thinking and the help of the Carabinieri were crucial. We hope other elderly people can learn from this experience.