Is called voice hacking –voice hacking– and it's one of the thousand ways scammers find to steal. The Mossos d'Esquadra have already received complaints from people who receive calls from known numbers in their address book and who, in the voice of a daughter or partner, ask for money. In reality, it's a voice created by artificial intelligence that attempts to simulate those of the victims' trusted people with the aim of getting them to make a financial transfer or provide key information to empty their account. The alert was issued this Monday by Mossos d'Esquadra spokesperson Montserrat Escudé during the event organized by the Movement to Stop Elder Abuse. It's not that this new technique puts the group in the crosshairs, but it does indicate that they are a particularly vulnerable group. Age is one of the factors that makes older people one of the targets of thieves and cyber fraudsters, but there are others that also contribute, such as the lack of a social network and emotional support and unwanted loneliness.

In a waiting room of a medical centre in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district, a woman made an international hand gesture for help: she opened her hand, stretched out her fingers –with the palm facing outwards–, hid her thumb inside the palm and finally folded the other four fingers over the thumb, making into a fist. A worker at the medical centre recognised this gesture, which has become popular lately to help victims of male violence, and alerted 112. When the Mossos d'Esquadra arrived at the scene, they arrested the man for alleged abuse.