Gambettola: scam using “phishing” technique, alleged perpetrators reported

In recent days, the Carabinieri of the Gambettola Station have completed a complex and rapid activity, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Forlì, which has allowed them to identify and report to the Judicial Authority, a man and a woman, considered presumed perpetrators in competition in the crime of "aggravated fraud".

The fact dates back to the month of January, when the victim received a text message warning her that anomalous movements had been made on her bank account, inviting her to call a dedicated telephone number. The woman fell into the trap and called the indicated number, to which a male voice answered, introducing himself as an anti-fraud check officer and claiming to have to carry out checks in collaboration with the Carabinieri, to thwart a scam against her. In this circumstance, justifying it with the need to carry out further checks, he convinced her to make three transfers, for a total of several tens of thousands of euros, to specifically indicated accounts.

Only later, while speaking with her niece, did the woman understand that she had been scammed and contacted the Gambettola Carabinieri.

The military, on the basis of the first findings acquired, immediately began a meticulous activity that allowed them to trace the two alleged perpetrators of the fraud and, through bank checks, to also follow the electronic traces of the current accounts to which the money had been moved in the meantime, managing to trace and block a part of the sum which, by order of the Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Court of Forlì, was subjected to urgent preventive seizure at the Campania branches of two different banks.