Two cases of deception of the elderly took place on Wednesday afternoon in Patras, when fraudsters swindled out an amount of almost 60,000 euros. The victims were two women aged 84 and 67. In both cases, according to pelop.gr, phone scammers called unsuspecting women and told them that their children, after being injured in a […]
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Halkidiki: “bought” frames and stole 9200 euros
The case against two people, aged 22 and 27, was initiated by the Arnaia police station in Halkidiki because, under the pretext of buying windows, they managed to “cleanse” the woman’s bank accounts and withdraw 9,200 euros. The incident took place in July 2021, when an unidentified man announced that he would buy window frames […]
An elderly woman threw 20,000 euros from a balcony
Fake doctors who called an elderly resident of Patras managed to deceive her, receiving a total of 20,000 euros. In a telephone conversation that the criminals had with the old woman, under the pretext that her daughter needed an urgent operation, they managed to persuade her to give them a large amount of money. According […]
Thessaloniki: phone scammers swindled over 280,000 euros from the elderly
More than 280,000 euros, gold coins and jewelry were fraudulently “extorted” by members of a criminal organization, mostly from elderly people, whom they called under the pretext that their relatives had been in a car accident or needed urgent surgery. The Thessaloniki Police Department investigated numerous cases of deception of unsuspecting citizens that took place […]
Arrest of a Bulgarian who was engaged in telephone fraud
The 26-year-old Bulgarian was arrested in Thessaloniki on charges of involvement in a gang that was involved in telephone fraud, referred to as “set up on the road.” According to the Greek police, in the past, the victims of criminals were two elderly people, from whom the attackers, posing as police officers, extorted 9,500 euros […]