Genoa: They pretended to be Poste Italiane operators to defraud people. Two individuals have been charged.

The State Police executed the precautionary measure of custody in prison, issued by the GIP of the Court of Genoa, against two people resident in Naples and traced there. The crimes charged are fraud, impersonation and unauthorized access to a computer system. A third accomplice was reported for the same crimes following a search carried out in the Neapolitan capital.

Today's activity comes at the end of a complex investigation conducted by investigators from the Cyber ​​Security Operations Center of Genoa and Naples, coordinated by the Postal Police and Cyber ​​Security Service, under the direction of the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Genoa.

The investigative activities began with the filing of two complaints at the offices of the Postal Police in Genoa, in which episodes that presented similarities were described: both complainants had received, in fact, a text message, apparently coming from Poste Italiane, with which they were notified of an anomalous access to their account and invited to click on an attached link. The link redirected to a fake page of the Poste Italiane home banking portal, where users were asked to enter their login credentials.

Subsequently the scammers pretending to be operators of the Italian Post Office and the Postal Police, they contacted the victims by telephone, changing the caller's username (spoofing technique) and induced them, with clever deceptions, to go to a post office to make a money transfer into a new current account, from which the sums were immediately withdrawn by the suspects.

The complex technical checks carried out by Postal Police and the precious collaboration of Poste Italiane have made it possible to foil numerous scams and identify over 40 victims residing in various Italian provinces.

Advice from the Postal Police:

In the context of online scams, the use of tThe technique of telephone spoofing is continually increasing. To identify and defend yourself from this type of scam it is important to remember that:

No members of the Police Force, employees of the Italian Post Office or banking institutions will never ask to know your personal home banking access codes or the current account device codes, just as you will never be asked to make bank transfers or other money payments via telephone, text message or e-mail.

It's important ensure the veracity of the call received by contacting the customer service of the declared agency or credit institution, using the telephone number indicated on their official websites.

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