A caregiver and four of her accomplices committed an articulated scam against an eighty-year-old: first he only had money “on loan”, with the motivation, which later turned out to be false, that he needed it for expensive care for a sick three-year-old child at heart, then posing as lawyers willing to assist the same old man in recovering the money he had lent.
Now they are all under investigation: in fact, the Postal Police has opened an investigation on them after the complaint of an acquaintance of the victim from whom, from 2017 to today, over 200 thousand euros have been stolen. The scam continued even when the caregiver had stopped assisting the eighty-year-old. At that stage the accomplices entered the scene, who had also pretended to be lawyers, claiming that with their mediation the elderly would be able to recover the money lent. But, through emails and texts, they too would keep asking for money.
The investigators, from the analysis on the emails coming from fake identities, were able to trace the anomalous movement of money in the assets of the elderly who found his current account emptied. As part of the investigation, the Turin Postal Police carried out five search decrees issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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