THREE bogus gas inspectors conned €6,000 out of an elderly woman in the Valencia region.
The trio, who pretended to work for a Valencia gas company, travelled to La Vall d’Uixo(Castellon province) to carry out scams.
The Guardia Civil arrested them in Loriguilla and Ribarroja with the fraudsters having previous convictions for similar offences in the Valencian Community.
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The investigation is still open with further arrests not being ruled out.
The two men and a woman dressed in uniforms that copied those used by well-known gas firms.
They targeted elderly people who lived alone and selected addresses in streets with little traffic and no surveillance cameras.
The fraudsters landed on a woman who they visited three times and pretended to carry out repairs for €6,000.
No invoice was supplied by the trio to their client.
The bogus gas inspector con is a familiar trick played on especially elderly people in …