Larissa: They convinced an elderly woman to throw a bag with 6,000 euros from the balcony

The action of brazen fraudsters who panic elderly people and relying on their reduced reflexes, finally succeed in extorting large sums of money that some citizens keep in their homes, is proven without end.

The latest victim is an 85-year-old woman from Larissa who threw from the balcony a bag containing 6,000 euros, money requested by the “doctor” of the Larissa hospital to operate on her daughter after a traffic accident.

More specifically, according to eleftheria, an unknown man, pretending to be a public official and namely a hospital doctor, called the 85-year-old Larisaia, saying that her daughter has allegedly been admitted to the hospital and must undergo surgery immediately. That’s why he asked her for money, finally convincing the 85-year-old, who threw a bag with 6,000 euros from the balcony, money received by an accomplice of the perpetrators. The 85-year-old unfortunately realized the fraud later, when a relative of hers assured her that the alleged traffic accident never occurred, with police officers from the Larissa Security Directorate looking for the perpetrators.

These are the well-known frauds with the alleged traffic accidents of relatives and especially children, in which frauds the scenario simply changes. Other times, a police officer is supposed to call asking for money (it starts at 50,000 euros, but…he settles for whatever money and jewelry is in the house), in order to bribe a prosecutor so that…the potential victim’s daughter will be “released” from the consequences of the law , i.e. not to prosecute her, even though she caused the fatal accident.

Other times, a hospital “doctor” also calls and in order to “operate” on the “daughter” injured in the traffic accident, he also asks for a large sum of money for the immediate supply of medical equipment.

Although it is known to everyone that public bodies, and in this particular case both EL.AS. as well as the country’s Hospitals, do not follow such information practices, after all there are citizens who fall victim to fraudsters. Usually these are elderly people, who – as they note in their statements – are shocked when the scammers call them, while very few turn out to be those who keep their cool and hang up the phone.

The purpose of the perpetrators is to confuse their potential victims, a development that enables them to then guide them, reaching the final goal, which is none other than extracting money and gold.

In other cases, they instruct their victims to go to a certain point by carrying the money, or where there is an “impossibility” of movement, they ask the victims to throw the bag of money from the balcony.

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