The technique is always the same : an elderly woman receives a phone call from a fake policeman or commissioner who informs her of her son's involvement in a very serious accident with the probable death of the other person . It is very urgent to appoint a lawyer and we need money immediately , and in this case jewels. The phone call has threatening tones and the old woman is in a panic. So when an accomplice shows up at the house to collect, the victim, desperate, hands over money and jewels.

This is how the scams worked, which according to the prosecution became real extortion , carried out by the four young Neapolitans stopped in recent days between Cagliari and Oristano by the police. And now the Flying Squad investigators are engaged in an investigation aimed at understanding whether the four are part of a larger criminal organization and are responsible for other episodes because the complaints collected by the police in recent months are numerous.

Some victims went to the police station to see if the jewels recovered in the operation belonged to them.

Further details in Matteo Vercelli's article in the newspaper on newsstands and in the digital edition

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