The Municipality of Avellino and the Prefecture of Avellino have launched the awareness campaign "Le truffe hanno fretta. Tu no" to help residents, especially older people, recognise and prevent fraud.
The initiative was presented at the Municipality of Avellino with the participation of councillors Luca Cipriano and Sergio Trezza. It focuses on information and prevention rather than enforcement alone, and it forms part of a wider project for the prevention of fraud against older people financed by the Ministry of the Interior and implemented locally by the Prefecture and the Municipality.
The central message is simple: scammers create hurry. The campaign asks citizens not to follow that hurry.
According to the campaign, fraud attempts exploit fear, trust and a sense of urgency to push victims to act without checking. Contact can arrive in person, by telephone or by message.
Stop, verify, ask for help
The behaviour recommended by the campaign rests on three steps: stop, verify and ask for help.
First, stop before acting under pressure. Second, verify the person and the request through official channels. Third, ask for help from someone you trust.
That pause is presented as the main defence. A request that cannot wait for a check is exactly the kind of request that should be checked.
Who to contact and when
The campaign distinguishes between immediate danger and reporting or verification.
In case of immediate danger, citizens are advised to contact the single European emergency number, 112.
For reports to the Postal Police, the campaign materials list 0825 34103. For suspected irregular banking transactions, the advice is to contact your own bank directly using its official contact details.
Keeping those three contacts separate helps residents choose the right response: emergency assistance, specialist reporting, or direct verification with the bank.
The local press reports do not publish a full programme, calendar of meetings or official campaign materials, and they do not specify the duration of the initiative or how many residents have been reached. No institutional page from the Municipality or the Prefecture with further details was available in the sources consulted.
What is confirmed is the purpose and the method: a joint effort by the Municipality and the Prefecture, supported by national funding, to give older residents clear instructions and official points of contact before fraud happens, not only afterwards.
