Milan, 1 December 2021 – 100 thousand euro scam suffered Tuesday afternoon by an elderly couple. Returning home, in the Città Studi area, the two, he of 83 and she of 81, came across a man who claimed to be a carabiniere plainclothes, showing a red and white card. With his face partially covered by a surgical mask and the visor of a baseball cap, the elusive military man told the elders that he was looking for a fugitive, who probably had slipped into their building to hide.
At that point, yesimulating a call to the operations center, managed to win the trust of the 80-year-old couple ea have the door of their apartment opened first and then the safe, with the excuse of having to check if the thief had entered the house and had stolen something. The 83-year-old showed the man the precious contents of the safe: gold jewelry for an estimated value of around 100 thousand euros. At that point, the crook took the jewelry, explaining that he had to do an inventory in his home command, and disappeared with the loot. Only later did the elders become aware of the scam and called 112; the case is being handled by the police.
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