The system implemented by some Roman swindlers was truly ingenious: they were able to intercept the letters containing the new cards. cash machine renewed some consumers, and once they had traced their identity, they managed to extort all the money they contained. The entire turnover at the base of this scam was truly impressive, reaching figures even equal to one million euros.
The Investigative Team of the Appio Nuovo Police Station (IX district of Rome) discovered this ATM scam, thanks to the close and constant collaboration with the Caserta Flying Squad and the Aversa Police Station.
Thanks to this valuable investigation, three precautionary custody measures were carried out for hypotheses of aggravated fraud, impersonation and computer fraud, which will then have to be confirmed with the continuation of the trial.
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Clearly at the moment the investigations are still in a preliminary stage; therefore, we will have to wait for the next months or years to have a clearer situation and be able to observe the epilogue of the whole affair, to the detriment of many unfortunate people.
The scam, in this case, would have started in July 2020, "thanks" to the report of an elderly woman from Rome who reported to the Appio Nuovo Police Station several suspicious withdrawals on her ATM, obviously not carried out by her. The amount withdrawn from her account, in particular, amounted to a whopping 12 euros.
From that moment on, the scam spread like wildfire across the entire Italian peninsula. In fact, thanks to the first preliminary investigations, it emerged that 40 episodes similar to what happened to the elderly lady had occurred in all regions of Italy, with the same mechanism used in her case. Most of the letters containing the new ATM cards (reserved for customers) were stolen in most cases in the postal centers of the cities of Padua, Bologna and finally Peschiera Borromeo.
Once they had the new cards, these scammers called the customers, trying in every way to extort the pin. If they were unable to do so through voice mode, they ordered the customer (unaware of everything) to type their PIN on the phone: thanks to a dual tone multi-frequency system present on the scammer's phone, the sound signal resulting from the typing of the numbers was decrypted, thus leading to the dialing of the customer's PIN.
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