Filenews 8 February 2022
A new case of fraud and the extortion of the amount of €7,000, from a 75-year-old retired woman is being investigated by the Police, which recommends attention to the public, while appealing that citizens, in cases of fraud and attempted fraud, immediately inform the Police, by contacting the nearest Police Station or the Citizen's Hotline, at the telephone number 1460.
At the same time, investigations are continuing to locate the suspects, who in the previous days, with the same trick, managed to extort another €10,000 from a 73-year-old woman, while they attempted to extort money from other citizens, who, however, did not believe the perpetrators and informed the Police accordingly.
Following the complaint submitted by a 73-year-old woman to the Pafos ICF last Friday for the extortion of the amount of €10,000 from the perpetrators of the fraud, a new complaint of a similar incident was submitted to the ICF of Pafos yesterday, with the victim being the 75-year-old pensioner.
According to the complaint of the 75-year-old complainant, around 10.30am on Monday, she was contacted by phone, both on her landline and on her mobile phone, with concealment of his phone number, a man who was speaking with a Greek accent, who told her that her relative, specifically her daughter, after an accident, she was injured in the leg and urgently needs to undergo surgery to place platinum on her leg. The suspect told the 75-year-old that the operation would cost €50,000 and asked for the money to be paid to a person named "George", who would meet her on Nikodimou Mylona Street in Paphos.
The complainant, after being convinced by what the suspect told her by telephone, went to a bank, where she withdrew from her bank account the amount of €7,000 and then went to Nikodimou Mylona Street. There she was approached by an unknown man of the man, who told her that he is the man named "George", with the complainant giving him the money she had taken from the bank.
Later, the complainant suspected that she was the victim of fraud and at 2.30pm, she proceeded to a complaint to the Pafos ICF, members of which went to Nikodimou Mylona Street for examinations to identify the suspect who extracted the money from the complainant.
The suspect is described as a man aged about 30 years, 1.70m tall. about, burly, with normal, black hair, fair skin, possibly Cypriot or Greek, wearing black clothes. His description resembles the description of the suspect who last Friday, with the same trick, extracted from a 73-year-old woman the sum of €10,000. According to the 73-year-old's description, the man to whom she handed over the money is about 35 years old, sturdy, of medium stature, with black short hair.
The Police recommends special attention to the public, appealing that citizens who receive similar types of phone calls, immediately inform the Police, by contacting the nearest Police Station or the Citizen's Hotline, at the telephone number 1460.
