It would be trendy, according to the police, who warn.

The Deauville soldiers have just arrested, in Villers-sur-Mer (Calvados), three men involved in thefts by trickery.

Their technique, which would be “increasingly widespread”?

They accost their victims – often elderly or vulnerable people – in Normandy seaside resorts, when they pay for their parking at the parking meter.

Claiming to live abroad, they ask their target to pay for their parking meter with their bank card in exchange for an immediate cash refund.

"A bit of bagou and ability to divert the attention of victims" and voila, summarizes

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“After acceptance, one of the individuals comes close enough to see the victim's confidential code, then makes him believe that the payment did not work.

Managing to divert his attention, they make him believe that the card was swallowed when it was discreetly stolen, ”detail the investigators.

“Time clocks never swallow cards”.

In this case, the three men were quickly caught.

But they had already used the card to pay “a substantial sum of sports bets.

“And the investigations carried out will make it possible to impute to them two other thefts of means of payment, in Cabourg and Dives-sur-Mer, then used in shops,

says

Actu.fr.



Faced with this type of scam, the gendarmerie invites the population to take care to conceal their code (and to immediately oppose it with their bank in the event of theft).

And insist on the fact that "the parking meters never swallow the cards".

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