"Beat & Release": Mysterious Flowers on Women's Day & a Swindler's "Window" Fraud

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 18 May 2022)

window of vulnerability links to previous TNT 

report about this hoodwinking technique.

                                 Thanks, but no thanks.

Şükran Candan (55), the mother of four children, lives in Yüzüncüyıl

village in Adana's Çukurova district.  On 8 March, she received flowers

on the occasion of World Women's Day and signed for them on a blank

form.  Not knowing who sent the flowers, Şükran hanım asked her

children but they all claimed no knowledge of the flowers or the sender.

In a panic, Şükran hanım called the florist, asked for the paper she

had signed and received it.  In April, Nuray F., Şükran hanım's renter 

Halil B.'s girlfriend, had come for coffee to Şükran hanım's house and

warned her that Halil B. was a swindler, saying "did Halil give you a 

promissory note to sign?"  (!)

On 25 April, Şükran hanım and her daughter checked her records in

the government's "E-Devlet" citizens' system and saw a debt file

in her name so she went to see her lawyer.  Şükran hanım learned that

because of the $95,000 promissory note she had ""signed", Halil B.

was claiming her summer house, five houses, a car and a motorcycle

as compensation.  

                                   "Gentleman" Halil B.  

When Şükran hanım's family called Halil B. he said that "I gave your

mother $95,000."  The police were contacted and the seizures halted.

It turned out that Halil B. and Nuray F. had bilked many other people

with the same "window" technique. In this regard, Şükran hanım said 

that "my entire wealth is in sequestration, worth about 1.5 million TL.

All I did was sign for flowers but they had put the dollar promissory 

note underneath it.  I didn't get any dollars or any other money."

In order to halt the sequestration, Şükran hanım had to borrow 150,000

TL from relatives.  She noted that "I was able to get the money to halt

the sequestration in a day.  When my son called Halil he said 'I gave

your mother $95,000.'   I'm owed a lot from him, not the other way 

around. This has to be solved right away.  There are many victims like

me.  The case is continuing in court. My only wealth is these homes,

where my children live.  I'm awaiting help."