A 43-year-old resident of Padua, unemployed with several charges against him, was denounced by the carabinieri of the Dolianova station for aggravated fraud.
On 18 September, a 43-year-old from Donori had turned to the military, explaining that he had been the victim of an unfortunately widespread and well-tested scam.
The man had sold the headboard of a solid wood bed for the sum of 100 euros. An alleged buyer then turned to him and induced him to go to an ATM Poste Italiane counter and follow his instructions to "receive" the agreed money. Instead, it was the seller who paid. Without realizing it he was making a series of wire transfers, repeated because the scammer made sure that the message “operation failed” appeared on the display.
With this trick, the Paduan managed to get 968.44 euros sent in bank transfers addressed to a BancoPosta card, which later turned out to be in the name of a Bengali, behind whom he was probably hiding.
The young man from Donori, convinced that he had earned a hundred euros, soon realized that he had lost almost a thousand. Then he formalized the complaint-lawsuit: the carabinieri, with the collaboration of the post office and a banking company, as well as the telephone operator, managed to identify the perpetrator of the scam.
(Unioneonline / D)
