He had collected a large sum of money, over one hundred thousand euros, and saw his money evaporate within a few hours, with bank transfers made and never authorized. A 74-year-old entrepreneur from Olbia is the victim of a sophisticated computer fraud which now sees several people registered in the register of suspects of the Tempio Pausania prosecutor's office.
The Anydesk application was installed on the man's smartphone, which allowed remote operations on the victim's accounts. From the investigations of his lawyers, the lawyers Alberto Piccinnu and Giovanni Cossu, it emerged that the sums of money withdrawn illegally ended up in a cryptocurrency exchange platform, bouncing from one account to another until they disappeared in the vortex of financial transactions.
To prevent the customer from being warned by his bank, the scammers blocked the SMS alerts. The lawyer Alberto Piccinnu says: «One of the hacked banks has already repaid us about 60 thousand euros. It is an important achievement and a precedent for victims of this kind of scam."