He believed he had bought a gold nugget for the "modest" sum of 6,700 euros . Instead it was a stone with no value.
The cheated is an elderly person from Sciacca, in the province of Agrigento .
Three people who have deceived him and on whose tracks the carabinieri of Sciacca have now put themselves.
One of them stopped him by offering him the "big" deal, while the other two accomplices pretended not to know each other and to be very interested in the purchase .
The poor old man fell for it with all his shoes, booking for the deal and going to the bank to recover the agreed money. Only later did he understand that he had been scammed and turned to the carabinieri.
(Unioneonline / D)
