He received a message which seemed to come from his service home banking, but it was a fraud: the victim, from whom they were stolen 5.000 €, went to the police, who after months of investigation, reported the alleged perpetrator. The woman, a forty-one year old from Orvieto, received a text message on her account with a hyperlink that is usually used by her bank to send her notifications.
She opened the link and was informed that a new login method had been associated with her account. She followed the required procedure and shortly thereafter received a call from a mobile number informing her that the procedure followed was a system error and she was advised not to access her home banking service for the next 24 hours.
The woman complied with the instructions and, the next day, when she called her bank's call center, she discovered that a withdrawal of 5.000 euros had been made from her current account. She then went to the police station in Orvieto and filed a complaint.
The investigations conducted by the Terni Police Headquarters' Land Control Office were challenging, but after several months, investigators managed to gather a series of pieces of evidence that led to the identification and reporting of the alleged perpetrator of the scam, a thirty-year-old resident of the province of Naples, who, as mentioned, has been charged.
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