Fake plumbers break into homes in Italy's Rome province

　　China News Service, April 3. According to the "European Times" Italian version of the WeChat public account "Italian", recently, there have been many cases of robbery by fake plumbers in Rome, Italy, and the victims are mostly elderly.

　　The Italian RomaToday reported that these scammers usually pretend to be workers of the Rome water company Acea, and carry out burglaries under the pretext of checking water pipes.

The police have now received multiple calls from residents.

　　An elderly victim in Rome told police that a man in overalls and a hat knocked on the door of the elderly man and asked to enter the house and use a pipe probe to check the water pipes.

He then coaxed the old man to put the cash and valuables at home into a bag, and then fled with the old man's belongings.

　　Another 80-year-old living in the Marino area, south of Rome, suffered a similar scam.

On the same day, a man about 60 years old, wearing a reflective vest and wearing a badge, said that he wanted to check the old man's water pipe, and then he pretended to be in contact with a colleague through a radio, and the other end was the man's accomplice.

Soon after, a "colleague" who was about 35 years old and wore a mask and hat came to the old man's house and "recommended" her to put her jewelry, cash, etc. together in the refrigerator to prevent the liquid overflowing from the faucet from turning the gold utensils black. damaged.

Fortunately, the grandmother was not frightened. She immediately yelled to call the police, successfully frightening the two liars.

　　The same incident occurred in the town of Labico, in the province of Rome, this time the victim was a 95-year-old woman.

At the time, a man in his 40s in overalls pretended to be a municipal plumber and asked to enter the house on the grounds of checking the water quality.

He then advised the elderly to keep valuables at home in the refrigerator to prevent them from being damaged.

When the old man was distracted, he immediately stole valuables worth about 3,000 euros and disappeared without a trace.