FERMO One was deceived by a self-styled carabiniere with the promise of a latest generation telephone at very convenient prices. The other took out a insurance policy ghost. Both, faced with hundreds of euros, found themselves empty-handed and with a bitter taste in their mouths. The carabinieri, after a lightning investigation, identified the scammers in both cases, reconstructing bank movements and telephone records.
The reports
The cases of various types of fraud continue to be rampant. The latest case involved the Carabinieri of the Montegranaro station, who received a complaint from a man living in the Macerata area. The latter had been contacted via WhatsApp by a man who identified himself as a Carabinieri officer. He said his name was Claudio and that he was on duty at the Civitanova station. He offered to buy an I-Phone 15 for 650 euros. It seemed like a great deal and the fact that he belonged to the police force, complete with a profile photo of a man in uniform, encouraged people to trust the seller. The victim was offered to meet up a stone’s throw from the Civitanova barracks to have the phone delivered. But after paying 650 euros with a top-up on a Postepay card, both the fake Carabinieri officer and the object obviously disappeared. The Montegranaro military identified the perpetrators, two thirty-year-olds resident in the province of Taranto, reported for fraud.
The other episode
The Carabinieri of Porto San Giorgio have instead concluded the investigations after the complaint of a 75-year-old from Fermo. The man was induced to take out a RCA insurance policy for 600 euros on a fake website of the company “Linear assicurazioni”. But he never received any certificate in exchange for the amount paid. The usual cross-checks on the telephone number and the recipient of the account on which the credit was made and the police arrived at a 68-year-old originally from Campania, who was reported.
