Impersonation, unauthorized access to a computer system and fraud.
These are the charges that a 29-year-old Romanian woman will have to answer, investigated for having defrauded an 89-year-old Sassari resident of Cagliari, from whom she managed to steal around 7 thousand euros.
The elderly victim, realizing the disappearance of the money from the current account, turned to the Carabinieri of the Pirri station, who started the investigation.
The investigations carried out revealed that the woman had activated an online bank account using false documents which she then used to receive the proceeds of a computer fraud.
This is the now infamous "mail in the mail" technique . Basically, the scammer, after having managed to illegally access the complainant's e-mail box, having monitored its contents and identified a message containing the IBAN of a customer of the elderly man, to whom the man should have paid money attributable to his activity, she managed to replace the destination code of the money, by entering her own.
In this way she managed to get the large sum credited.
For her, the complaint to the Prosecutor of the Republic of Cagliari was thus triggered.
A similar case had occurred in recent days, in the Sassarese area, where the victim had been reduced by as much as 30 thousand euros .
(Unioneonline/lf)