The Waldeck-Rousseau police station in Nantes.

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Fabrice Elsner / 20MINUTES

  • The man spotted his victims, very old, on the White Pages according to their first name.

  • He was setting up a scheme to recover credit cards and PIN codes.

  • The individual was arrested in the center of Nantes on Thursday noon.

The victims are called Paulette, Annette, Arlette, Denis or Jacqueline.

The oldest is 83 years old.

All these old ladies were the victim of a man, who spotted them on the White Pages.

It all started on October 10.

Investigators are seized of a complaint from an 88-year-old woman following a scam of which she was the victim with fraudulent use of her bank card, reports the Nantes police.

Operation mode ?

A man contacted her by phone explaining that there was a problem with his bank card (abnormal debits) and that she had to give him his account number and his bank card confidential code.

Then, a courier employed by a bank would come to her home to collect her bank card in an envelope.

An investigator makes the connection with a 2013 case

"The description of the" courier "was a man of mixed race type, stout body at the level of the upper body, frizzy and black hair," said the police.

This procedure is known to an investigator assigned to the financial brigade for ten years and who had participated in the arrest of a 32-year-old individual, author of similar facts in 2013.

The investigator then checks the situation of this suspect who turns out to have been released from prison on July 1.

The address given when he left was CCAS Nantes.

A reconciliation is then carried out with nine other procedures with the same operating mode between September 2020 and January 2021. The total loss on the nine cases is 9.995

euros.

The victims' bank cards were used for cash withdrawals from ATMs or tobacco purchases.

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The individual was arrested Thursday at noon Place de la Petite-Hollande in Nantes.

The clothes he wore during the fraudulent withdrawals made using the victims' bank cards were seized in a search of his mother's home where he lived.

He was due for immediate appearance on Thursday.

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