Elderly woman defrauded in Siena: two Neapolitans arrested

Siena – Yet another scam involving the so-called fake accident involving an elderly person has ended with a double arrest. Late in the afternoon of Thursday, January 8, Carabinieri from the Siena Provincial Command's Investigative Unit arrested two men, both residents of the province of Naples, who were caught red-handed after defrauding an 83-year-old woman.

According to investigators' reconstruction, the two had implemented one of the most common techniques in the world of elderly scams. One of them, posing as a Carabinieri officer, had contacted the victim by phone, claiming that a vehicle registered to her had been involved in a serious traffic accident.

To avoid alleged legal consequences, the elderly woman had been induced to hand over money and jewelry to a self-styled expert charged with resolving the situation.

Thanks to a series of reports received by the emergency number, the police immediately launched a search, managing to intercept the suspects' car shortly after the loot was delivered. Inside the vehicle, they found €300 in cash and gold jewelry, with a total estimated value of approximately €5.000.

All the stolen goods were recovered and returned to the victim, while the two scammers were arrested and transferred to Siena prison, where they remain at the disposal of the judicial authorities pending a validation hearing.