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‘Kidnap’ woman really a victim of huge trick

• 21 Jun 2007 •

A 60-YEAR-OLD woman who told police that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint and freed only after being forced to withdraw 3,000 euros from a bank was trying to hide she had fallen for a con trick.

After further investigations, police have now established that the kidnapping claim – reported fully in last week’s Euro Weekly News and other media – was in fact false, and had been dreamt up as the woman was ashamed she had been swindled out of the money by tricksters in exchange for what turned out to be a bundle of newspaper cuttings.

The woman first called the police to report she had been kidnapped after being approached by a woman asking for directions while walking near the Martin Carpena sports pavilion in Malaga.

She claimed she was then forced to get into a car, and with two women sitting in the back and the driver armed with a gun, she was taken to a bank and forced to withdraw 3,000 euros from her account.

Police initially treated the case as kidnapping and robbery

However, following further police investigations, the woman admitted she had not been kidnapped but in fact swindled by expert criminals

She was initially too ashamed to admit that she had been fallen for the trick - known as ‘tocomocho’ with variations frequently used on elderly people – with victims buying a lottery ticket for less than it is supposedly worth after being told the winner is unable to cash it in, but that they can exchange.

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