Mayor Enzo Cuomo's Warning Against Scammers in Portici

"I am your mayor Enzo Cuomo, do not open your doors to strangers, they could be scammers." This is how the voice message from the mayor of Portici, Enzo Cuomo, begins, sent to all citizens alarmed by the spike in scam and robbery incidents targeting the elderly recorded in his and other Vesuvian municipalities. Making this special communication possible, which reaches all residents in a set geographic area through landline and mobile numbers, is the app "Mayors in Contact 2.0". "I have always based my activity as mayor on close and daily contact with the citizens," explains Enzo Cuomo, mayor since 2004, in his fourth term with a stint as a senator of the Republic starting in 2013, "who after so many years of administration I can say I have met personally at least once. In addition to the reports submitted to the law enforcement agencies," he adds, "the number of reports that come directly to the Municipality or personally to me has also increased, hence the idea of sending the message with my voice, a way to further shorten the distances." "To the citizens of Portici, a municipality that I remember has a very high population density with a very high average age, this contact is very much appreciated, perhaps with the exception of an old lady," Cuomo amusingly recounts, "whom I recently met on the street who first thanked me for having contacted her personally but then, perhaps not very familiar with the world of chat and mistaking the recorded message for a direct phone call, scolded me for having immediately hung up the phone without giving her time to ask me questions," he concluded.