He pays off the debts he has with the tax authorities by defrauding a man and making him pay 40 thousand euros into Equitalia.

Novara: pays the debts he has with the tax authorities by defrauding a man, and making him pay 40 thousand euros into Equitalia.

A man showed up at the Complaints Office of the Novara Police Headquarters at the end of August, reporting something that had happened scam against him, reporting that he had lost more than €40.000,00.
Specifically, the victim said he had received a text message on your cell phone with which he was informed of unauthorized access to his current account. Alarmed by this, clicked on the link and soon after it was contacted by telephone by a self-styled IT operator of his bank, who warned him of some withdrawal attempts from his current account and that to block the threat it would be necessary to authorize an operation via access to home banking.

The victim, in total good faith and convinced by the words of the so-called operator, followed the instructions given without noticing anything and therefore concluded the telephone conversation.
Only after having authorized the banking transaction did he become suspicious and, having checked with his bank, he realized that he had authorized numerous payments, for a total amount exceeding €40.000,00.
Once the complaint was collected, the State Police officers carried out the first investigations which revealed that such payments had been made via the “CBILL” channel in favor of Equitalia. Then, having obtained the details of the beneficiary of the operations, the police contacted the bank and had confirmation that the current account was actually registered in the name of Equitalia, and that the operation set up by the criminal was used to pay his debts to the tax authorities .

At this point an immediate request was made in order to block the operations to freeze the sum stolen from the complainant and at the same time request to identify the natural person who is the beneficiary of the operations.
After requesting a decree to repay the sums of money from the Public Prosecutor's Office, the complainant regained possession of all the money that had been stolen from him. The investigations then continued until the alleged perpetrator of the scam was identified, who was reported to the Judicial Authority for the crimes of Illegal Access to an IT System, Aggravated Fraud, Embezzlement, Self-Laundering and Illegal Exercise of Financial Activities.