More than 77 thousand euros were stolen from an elderly woman by a 52-year-old fraudster who came to her house under the pretext of allegedly disinfecting due to the coronavirus. At noon last Friday, May 6, posing as a municipal employee, the attacker entered the house of an 80-year-old resident of Agios Mamantas (Chalkidiki). The […]
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23 thousand euros gave the old woman to phone scammers
Phone scams carried out by various experts in an attempt to deceive unsuspecting citizens and fraudulently take large sums of money from them have reached a new level. In this case, we will talk about members of a criminal group operating in the northern suburbs of Attica and inflicting a “blow” mainly on the inhabitants […]
Apartment scammer: rents out housing, receives an advance and disappears
Greek law enforcement has received more than 20 complaints about an enterprising scammer who rents houses to workers for the season, issues fake keys, and then disappears after receiving the appropriate advance. “Scammers via the Internet, by posting photos of a house (apartment), are baiting naive citizens. Interested in the offer of rent, people meet […]
Beware: volunteer scammers
Athens News warns that among the volunteers collecting money, food, clothes and other things for Ukraine, may be scammers or people who have previously been noted for deception and even served time for fraud. In particular, on the island of Zakynthos, Galina Genovese (she is Alinaaka Galina Belaya). scammer, which is well known in the […]
Attiki Odos: "On someone else’s loaf…"
To get 2,000 euros from the government, some enterprising “smarts” are trying to place vehicles on the Attiki Odos. But DIAS is on guard. According to the Ministry of Citizens’ Protection, the promised compensation of 2,000 euros, which is going to be paid to drivers after the suffering experienced at Attiki Odos, has attracted the […]
A relative of a Covid patient was offered a “bed in the intensive care unit” for 3,500 euros.
A prosecutor in Thessaloniki is investigating incidents where unknown persons offer relatives of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 a bed in an intensive care unit at a price of 3,500 euros or more. Hospitals in Thessaloniki report daily a shortage of beds in intensive care units and a large number of intubated patients in regular wards. […]
Deceived deceivers: anti-axers injected with a real vaccine instead of saline
The German edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung has published an article by the famous philosopher Slavoj ižek “Deceived Swindlers” about an incident in Greece. He talks about vaccine opponents who were given the usual vaccine for 400 euros: “A few weeks ago, the Greek media reported that a case involving 100,000 deniers and between […]
Kavala: an elderly woman gave 9000 euros to scammers
It all started with a phone call on November 13, when a stranger, posing as a doctor, told a resident of Kavala the terrible news – her daughter was in a car accident. Fortunately, as it turned out, the daughter is still alive, but an urgent operation is required for salvation, which costs 9000 euros. […]
Two gypsies arrested for elderly cheating
Two Roma, aged 37 and 38, are accused of 35 cases of fraud and arrested by employees of the Property Protection Department. According to the Greek police, the victims were mostly elderly people who were contacted outside banks or shopping centers, sometimes pretending to be accountants and sometimes as tax officials. Having a portable POS […]