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A 60-year-old Limassol resident has lost \u20ac55,000 in an online scam, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\nA 60-year-old Limassol resident has lost \u20ac55,000 in an online scam, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to the police report, the man made a complaint to Limassol CID that between 2020 and 2021, he received a text message through a messaging app, from a woman residing abroad.The woman allegedly said that a relative of hers was ill and in need of money for treatment.The 60-year-old reported that through 14 separate transactions, the woman secured a total of \u20ac55,450 from him.The case is still under investigation.Follow the
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A 60-year-old resident of Limassol lost \u20ac55,000 in an online scam where he was persuaded to send money to a woman claiming to need it for a relative’s medical treatment. The victim made 14 separate transactions totaling \u20ac55,450 based on messages received through a messaging app. The incident occurred between 2020 and 2021 and is currently under investigation by the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1521,3,250,1419,24,387,1550,1394,1450,510,184,1269,343],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-1521","tag-cyprus","tag-google","tag-investigation","tag-limassol","tag-lost","tag-lost-e55","tag-man","tag-medical-treatment","tag-online-scam","tag-police","tag-police-investigation","tag-scam"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n