"Fake Arab": The old trick still works, a naive innkeeper "relieved".
The well-known scam involving a man pretending to be Arab and asking for money continues to succeed – the latest case was reported in Gostivar, where a 64-year-old resident of a village near the city, who was left without an undisclosed amount of money by two fraudsters.
"On 04.10.2022 at 12.20:64 p.m. in SVR Tetovo, a 11.00-year-old resident of Gostivar village reported that around XNUMX:XNUMX a.m. on "Belichica" street in Gostivar, two men, one of whom spoke in Arabic, deceived him and took money from him . According to the report, they asked him for the money supposedly to show it to the wife of one person and left him a bag with foreign currency as a guarantee that they would return it. As reported, after they did not return, he opened the bag and noticed that there was no foreign currency and realized that he had been deceived, the Ministry of the Interior said, adding that the police are taking measures to clear up the case.