Barranco: They capture two men swindling La Tinca’s winning ticket story.

Officers from the Lima District Police Station in Lima Gorge arrested two men who tricked a woman into a new kind of history scam with a winning ticket to La Tinca.

One of the detainees intercepts the victim, informs her that she was an illiterate person and asks her to help him read a piece of paper that was a ticket to “teen’.

After a few seconds, the accomplice approaches and convinces the victim to simply go to the bank and collect this supposedly earned money. They then trick her into withdrawing 2,000 Singapore dollars from their bank account, an amount that is exchanged for this supposed prize.

The victim, examining the money delivered to her in a black bag, notes that these were counterfeit bills, and some of them were scraps of newspapers posing as money.

“He comes back and informs the lady that the subject who claims to be illiterate has won a prize of SGD 6,000. The victim relents and they go to the bank to withdraw the amount of S$2,000. Realizing that they are trying to quickly escape, he asks for support from the National Police. Both have a wide police dock for crimes such as murder, fraud and aggravated robbery,” he said. PTR colonel pnp Jorge Barbosa.

During the intervention, nine tickets for these lottery games, counterfeit banknotes and 2,000 Singapore dollars were found, which were seized by the injured party.

Two detainees are registered with the police and will now be prosecuted for their involvement in the alleged crime against property in the form of fraud.