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Elderly falling prey to 'volunteer' ruse
Mon, Aug 03, 2009
The Straits Times

By Carolyn Quek

CONMEN have begun homing in on elderly people living on their own.

Their modus operandi is to pose, in most instances, as volunteers from welfare organisations on a project to spruce up the homes of these senior citizens, police say.

Once let into the homes, these 'volunteers' help themselves mostly to their unsuspecting victims' cash.


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