Passing themselves off as employees of Post Italian, three men have induced some victims to arrange wire transfers for a total of over 6.500 euros. The scam was discovered by the Carabinieri of the Radiomobile Quota of the Sessa Aurunca Company, who arrested the perpetrators in Naples and Falciano del Massico.
The operation took place following an order issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, at the request of the local Prosecutor's Office, for the crime of fraud in competition.
The investigations have reconstructed several episodes of online fraud against unsuspecting postal account holders. The arrested, using telephone numbers associated with Poste Italiane, contacted the victims in the provinces of Catania, Viterbo and Verona.
Pretending to report an attempted fraudulent access to the accounts, they convinced the victims to make a transfer to “block” the operation. The victims also received an SMS with instructions that, once followed, authorized a real transfer of money to accounts registered to the same scammers.
Thanks to this technique, the criminals managed to obtain illicit profits for a total amount of over 6.500 euros.
Verified Source
Comments (5)
Technology has made everything more complicated, you always have to check who you are contacting.
I hope there are more controls on these phones so these scams don't happen again.
It's incredible that they use the names of Poste Italiane to do these things, victims must be careful.
I don't understand how people can fall for these scams, they should be more careful.
This scam was really bad, I hope the police find all the culprits.