A man tries to pretend to be the prince Albert of Monaco in order to defraud a star tv – Gala

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Nice-Matin tells the story of the attempted scam from a man claiming to be the prince Albert II of Monaco. He said to a famous journalist as he hosted a fundraiser.

False prince but a true scam. On Tuesday evening, the journalist Michèle Cotta receives an audio call from a withheld number. At the end of the line, a mysterious caller has been warned that Albert II of Monaco will join it the next morning via the application Whatsapp. Wednesday, the telephone of the writer rings a new time, at 8: 45 am. The beginning of a surreal scene.

Michèle Cotta picks up and takes the video call. By screen interposed, and he sees a man resembling prince Albert “, but with ten years less,” she says to the Nice-Matin. “I was too concentrated on the face of this man and looking at what there was around” she confesses, remembering the facies of the impersonator scammer. To be certain that no ear indiscreet is present, the false prince asked him then shoot around it. “I want to be sure that there is nobody around you.Make a turn at 360 degrees” , he asks.

The editorialist of the daily newspaper nice-tells the story of the aftermath of the scam. ” The man told me that a journalist of monaco has been kidnapped by an islamist group ” tells one that calls into doubt the identity of the prince Albert of Monaco. “The man was far enough on the image, I found it hard to see. I was trying to distinguish his face” entrusted to Michèle Cotta. The man goes through the gear and indicates to him that he organizes a “call for funds” to try to bring back a journalist who had allegedly been “abducted by an islamist group”. Staged expertly prepared but not enough for the journalist falls into the trap.

“In my opinion, it is a scam or a joke,” judge Michèle Cotta. A trend later confirmed by the Princely Palace, congratulating the professional to have evidence of “discernment” and na not made “deceived by this scam.” Monaco has not trembled.

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