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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 17 October 2023)
The Beylikdüzü streets are paved with gold (hoodwinkers).
On 7 October in the Adnan Kahveci neighborhood of Beylikdüzü,
Istanbul, A.K. was walking along when he was approached by a person
claiming to be a foreigner with gold ingots to sell cheap (!). As A.K.
hesitated, another person arrived at the scene (quite a coincidence!) and
took up the seller on his offer, declaring "Wow! So cheap!" and bought
one of the ingots.
A.K. then lost his hesitation and bought one of the ingots too for 18,200
TL (about $650). Happy with his supposed bargain gold purchase, A.K.
went to a jeweler for confirmation but was disappointed to find out that
the ingot was not gold at all.
A.K. sought help from the police, who checked video from the scene
and identified the hoodwinker as M.P., who was then taken into custody
at his home in Güngören. It turned out that M.P. has a police record of
70 crimes, 49 of them for hoodwinking using the same technique in
Arnavutköy, Başakşehir, Güngören and Kadıköy to "earn" 49,000 TL
and $1,500 from his "gold ingot" sales.
M.P. was processed at the courthouse for "nitelikli dolandırıcılık"
(defrauding someone by earning their trust) and released (!).
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