5 Eylül 2024 Perşembe

"Fleece & Release": Elderly Couple Duped by Fake Police in Phone Scam, in Küçükçekmece

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 5 August 2024)














Memorize the English phrase "I don't speak Turkish", so 
the bad guys will go elsewhere. 

A hoodwinker called Muammer Çatıkkaş Silsüpür (68) in Istanbul's 
Küçükçekmece district, identified himself as a policeman and told
Muammer hanım that a gang had made a fake ID card using her name
and would sell all her property.

Her husband Kadir Silsüpür then sold a plot of land he owned in 
Kastamonu worth 15 million TL (about $440,000) for just 5 million TL
and gave the money to the "police".  Subsequently, the couple realized
they had been duped and filed a criminal complaint with the real police.

Cybersecurity expert Osman Demircan noted that this fraud technique
is widely used against older citizens and recommended that when such
a call comes to physically go to the police station to confirm it (or not).





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