Each occasion becomes important to make prevention work, know the phenomenon and adopt precautions in order not to fall into the trains of which the elderly people are often victims of scam.
In recent days, accepting the invitation of the Calabria Regional Secretariat of the FNP-CISLthe Catanzaro Police Headquarters participated in the Regional Congress, entertaining the many participants on the subject of Scams against elderly people.
The manager of the Lamezia Terme Police Commissariat, Antonio Turi and the official of the section “Crimes against the heritage” of the Catanzaro Mobile Squad, Andrea Matrellaattracted attention to the importance of Con confidence of the phenomenon of scams in general and in particular of those against people who, due to the solitude in which they live or age, can become victims of subjects without scruples.
During the meeting, particularly appreciated by the participants, who were able to interact with the leaders of the State Police who intervened, addressing questions to better understand the behavior to be adopted in the presence of particular situations, Slides have been projected and analyzed the best known ways of the scams, including that of the “relative in difficulty with the intervention of the false belonging to the police“, That” of the unexpected and false inheritance “and many other imaginative methods used by those who commit crimes such as scams, through” artifices and scams “.
The awareness of the dangers related to scams is a form of self -protection, it is essential to always contact the police forces to report suspicious attitudes and to denounce dangerous situations.
The State Police has always been involved in the front line in the activity of combating the phenomenon of scams towards “weak people“, With numerous permanent campaigns, also published on the institutional website www.politiziadistato.it.
When there are doubts about the people who meet or who want to enter the house it is good tElefonare to the single emergency number 112to verify in any case the belonging of subjects to services of services (light, water, gas, etc.) or law enforcement agencies, reporting situations deemed “suspicious”.
If someone remains the victim of a scam or theft, it is important to report the incident because in this way, the police are given the opportunity to carry out investigations and prevent others from suffering the scam.