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.
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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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