Rome: Entrepreneur Scams Online, 30-Year-Old Ukrainian Arrested by State Police

The State Police operators, belonging to the Cyber ​​Security Operations Centre in Rome, have A thirty-year-old Ukrainian national was arrested red-handed for aggravated fraud.

The man was identified following a complaint filed by a Roman businessman, convinced to invest online from a self-styled broker who had contacted him through a social network.

In particular, after having induced him to invest a small sum of money, the scammer had managed to get him to invest increasingly significant figures, making him believe – through a fake online trading platform created ad hoc – that the deposited sums were rapidly generating very high returns.

By the time the entrepreneur tried to recover the invested money – about 60 thousand euros – faced with continuous and specious objections from his “financial advisors”, he realised that he had been deceived and, faced with his insistence, they proposed a meeting in person, during which he would have to pay an additional 20.000,00 euros necessary to “unlock” his practice.

The scheduled meeting included the release of the invested sums, in exchange for the delivery, via a trusted courier, of a package containing the agreed money.

At the meeting, the Postal Police officers managed to intercept the courier in charge of collecting the money, proceeding to his arrest.

The arrest was validated and the suspect is to be considered not guilty until a final sentence.