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January 28, 2021 The deception is unfortunately always the same.

They phoned the elderly or frail people.

They presented themselves as "relatives", "grandchildren", with storytelling ways worthy of the first actors, communicating that they had caused false accidents or that they had fallen ill with Covid.

Hence the request to quickly collect money and precious objects to support, in the first case the costs of an elusive insurance, or worse to avoid the risk of arrest, in the second for health care.



A system that has led the police to find 50 victims in the province of Novara, Vercelli and Como so far.

9 precautionary measures.

13 searches.



The organization had the logistic headquarters in Poland but the operations center in Novara.

The scam did not end with the phone call: after a few days at the door of the house, an accomplice showed up who, posing as the 'secretary of a notary' or 'health staff', collected what the unfortunates were able to scrape together at home among cash and gold objects.

The victims were between 60 and 95 years old.