Posing as her accountant’s employee, she had contacted a 73-year-old resident by phone Artas a stranger last March and had convinced her that she was entitled to a monthly allowance, which she won after… a lottery! In fact, he offered to arrange for it to be deposited into her account himself.
The woman was persuaded to give him her bank card details, but instead of seeing the promised money in her account, she found that contactless transactions totaling €200 had been made on her card and she lodged a complaint with Security.
After an investigation by the police, the fraud was solved and it was found that a 22-year-old and a 17-year-old Roma were involved in it, against whom a case file was filed and submitted to the prosecutor of Arta. The preliminary investigation continues, to ascertain whether the perpetrators had deceived other unsuspecting elderly people.
Prepaid card fraud
Under the pretense of being an accounting office employee, an unknown man called the kiosk employee of a 45-year-old woman in the city of Kastoria and convinced him to give him the codes of three prepaid cards with a total value of 300 euros, which it turned out he had credited to an account he had opened with a company prepaid cards. The fraud, which took place on January 3, was investigated by the Security police officers and the identities of two Greeks aged 26 and 59 were identified, against whom a case file was filed and submitted to the Kastoria Prosecutor’s Office.
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