“Dad, this is my new number, I need money to pay the bills.”

When a seventy-one year old pensioner from Dolianova received this message via Whatsapp, he did not check whether the sender was really his daughter, who lives in Cinisello Balsamo. And he immediately took action: he made a payment of 750 euros to the PostePay that had been indicated to him. But it was a scam.

The person who sent the message requesting help was a twenty-three-year-old from Cinisello Balsamo, who somehow managed to steal the elderly man's telephone number and set up the scam.

But he was discovered and reported by the Carabinieri of Dolianova in collaboration with colleagues from the Lombard town.

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

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