VENAFRO. The agents of the Cyber Security Operational Section of the Isernia State Police have reported a 50-year-old from Campania, responsible for aggravated fraud, committed in Venafro, against a 76-year-old.
A man, driving a dark-coloured SUV, approached the elderly man who was walking near the Venafro crossroads and, following a well-tested technique, without getting out of the car, he addressed the victim in a confidential tone, greeting him and asking him if he remembered of him, claiming to be a friend of his son. During the interview he told him that his son had ordered headphones from him and that he had already paid a deposit of 150 euros, money that he would have lost if he had not paid the remaining sum of 200 euros. The 76-year-old, who did not have his phone with him, believing his words, he gave him 45 euros or all the money he had at the time. To pay the remaining sum, the 50-year-old convinced him to insert his credit card into a portable POS that he had in the car.
He made him carry out the same procedure twice, giving the excuse that the first transaction had not been successful. Only when he returned home did the elderly man contact his son and realize that he had been the victim of a scam. In fact, by checking the list of movements on his card, he verified the presence of two debit payments, for a total of 450 euros. The judicial police investigations carried out following the complaint filed by the victim allowed the State Police operators to identify the author of the scam. In fact, although the portable POS was combined with a foreign IBAN, from the analysis of the contractual documentation and the list of movements of this IBAN, elements emerged that allowed the 50-year-old to be identified, also the author of a similar scam committed in another Region in end of 2023, with completely identical methods, the proceeds of which had flowed into the same bank current account. The proceeding is in the preliminary investigation phase and the suspect will be able to assert his defense reasons before the Judicial Authority pursuant to the Code of Criminal Procedure.
