New case cheating elderly He employed the police officers of the Paionia Department, who in collaboration with Pella Security Police officers arrested a man.

A co -worker phoned the elderly pretending to be a doctor and claimed that her relative should immediately undergo surgery.

In this way the two men managed to get her a sum of 4,000 euros. The detainee was found in the Pella area and in his possession was the sum of 1,850 euros, which was rendered in the elderly.

Police investigations are continuing to identify his associates and to identify their participation in other similar offenses.

On the occasion of the incident, the Central Regional Police Directorate of Central Macedonia constitutes citizens not to trust strangers trying to persuade them by phone to give them moneybecause of their urgent need for a relative or friendly person.

At the same time, he stresses that they should not be persuaded if the perpetrators give them to talk on the phone with their alleged relative and that they should not accept any meeting with strangers.

Finally, it suggests that citizens always have emergency telephone numbers (police, fire, hospitals, relatives, etc.).