By DAISY SAMPSON AND PAULO SILVESTRE news@algarveresident.com
A British woman fell victim to a car park robbery scam at the Intermarché supermarket in Lagoa on Monday, July 12.
This comes less than two weeks after a similar incident in the car park at Lidl in Loulé on July 2.
Susan Foster from Lagoa told the Algarve Resident: “I had been shopping in the supermarket and had put my bag in the passenger side foot well, the shopping in the boot and I was in the car ready to leave when a well dressed couple in a new car pulled up and asked me for directions.
“I wouldn´t usually stop but they had a map and looked like respectable people. I told them to ask inside for help, then from nowhere a third man jumped into the back of the car and they sped off. When I returned to the car I noticed my bag, containing all my documents, 400 Euros in cash, mobile phone, keys and other personal items, had been stolen.”
She added: “I reported it to the police who said they were aware of other cases like this in Loulé and Guia and they advised me to always keep my handbag in the locked boot of the car and to never carry around large amounts of cash.”
A spokesman for the GNR told the Algarve Resident: “Cases like this do occur in the region sporadically. There have been periods when there have been many robberies similar to this followed by times when the number of cases is very low.”
A spokesman from Intermarché supermarket Lagoa said: “I am not aware of this specific case and we have had no complaints about robberies in our car park. From time to time this happens but these cases occur in supermarkets across the Algarve and are not unusual.”
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