Spanish and Portuguese authorities arrested 54 suspected members of a network that used a cunning mix of fraudulent phone calls and social engineering to swindle nearly 100 elderly people, depriving them of some 2.5 million euros (US$2.68 million), Europol said on Tuesday.
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