Angers. Irish-Style Arnoque: False English-Speaking Tourists Are Raging in the City

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ANGERS, a quarter of the train station. It's past noon. A woman about fifty years old gets ready to get back in her car when a man with a strong British accent approaches, visibly panicked. Frozen shirt, backpack to the foot, he designates his phone extinguished. "Excuse me, madam... my family is stuck. No more money, no phone... can you help me, please?" The scene seems almost banal in a tourist city. But this time, it's not a real distress: it…

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The police of Maine-et-Loire are alerting about an upsurge in the so-called Irish scams in Angers: false English tourists abuse the confidence of passers-by to extract cash from them. Warning to Angers: false tourists are asking for cash Angers, in Maine-et-Loire, is currently the scene of a series of scams...