They try to scam an elderly man but he doesn't fall for it, he asks the police for help and has two girls aged 20 and 23 arrested. It happened in Portici, in the province of Naples. A seventy-six-year-old receives a phone call, on the other end of the line there is a fake lawyer who tells him that his son has been arrested for running over a person and that now he must pay for his freedom.
The old man believes it at first, withdraws the requested money but at a certain point he starts to have doubts: could it be a scam? Just as he is going to the appointment, he runs into two policemen . He makes them listen to the conversation taking place with the fake lawyer and the policeman immediately understands that it is a scam. The soldiers and the seventy-six-year-old agree to indulge the interlocutor.
The man proceeds towards the place of delivery of the agreed 1,300 euros while the carabinieri follow him discreetly. The elderly man arrives at via Diaz and waits, the carabinieri observe from afar. A few minutes later, two women arrive, they show up on board a Jeep Renegade. They are the ones appointed by the lawyer to collect the money. The exchange takes place, the handcuffs snap on . The two women - aged 20 and 23 - are arrested for fraud.
Also reported was a forty-four year old man who was observing the situation from a lookout without realizing the presence of the carabinieri who stopped him. The money was returned to its rightful owner. The arrested women were transferred to prison .
(Online Union)
