Teenager held over phone scam targeting elderly couple

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A teenager has been arrested successful the outskirts of Athens connected suspicion of defrauding an aged mates retired of jewellery and golden coins worth thousands of euros utilizing a communal telephone scam, authorities said Tuesday.

A constabulary statement said the 19-year-old suspect was arrested Saturday successful Zefyri, connected the capital’s northwestern fringes. He allegedly phoned up the mates who unrecorded successful the southern Athens territory of Moschato, claimed to work for an energy institution and said their location supposedly had a wiring problem. Therefore, helium argued, they should permission immoderate jewellery oregon different valuables kept astatine location outdoors to debar the hazard of electrocution.

The mates fell for the ruse and near a bundle containing jewellery worth €5,000 and two British golden sovereigns, which the suspect allegedly grabbed and vanished.

Such scams are common, yet stay effectual contempt repeated constabulary nationalist consciousness campaigns and dozens of arrests.