TERAMO. They were not new cell phones but, above all, they never arrived from the person who bought and paid for them. They were stolen cell phones passed off as new and put up for sale on the internet, naturally at significantly lower prices than those in shops.
So low as to cause the buyer from Teramo to fall into the trap who, at a total cost of 450 euros, had thought of changing the devices of four of his company’s collaborators. It is a judicial file from the Prosecutor’s Office with a 50-year-old from Teramo under investigation for fraud and receiving stolen goods that marks the latest scam in the network. Fraud, online fraud, which has tripled during the pandemic. Because it is more than evident that the audience of potential victims has significantly expanded in the days in which the internet was the only means of always being there in times of lockdown. And online criminals have updated their modus operandi taking inspiration from current events. But behind so many advantages there are countless pitfalls: this circumstance is demonstrated by the increasingly frequent news of online scams. In this case, cell phones were put up for sale and paid for but never reached their destination. And this triggered the complaint of the defrauded person and the subsequent investigations which then led to the discovery of everything. In fact, the report of a Roman trader was added to the complaint of the defrauded buyer. It was he who noticed that some mobile phones that appeared on the internet and reported by some friends were very similar, indeed the same, to those that had been stolen from him some time before. It didn’t take much to replace suspicions with certainties and so the man made a report. Other investigations were carried out which, as often happens in these cases, are always complex.(dp)
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