Bogus electricity meter readers have been preying on elderly residents.
National Police reported that they have broken up a very active gang which could have conned about 100 victims.
Officers in Alicante and Alcoy had been investigating the gang since June, when a woman aged almost 80 reported she had been conned by a man she met in the landing of her apartment building in the provincial capital.
He claimed to be an electrical maintenance worker and convinced her to let her into her home to check an electrical device.
Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca News
