The scam in the name of Crosetto, well-known entrepreneurs hit

Requests for hundreds of thousands of euros, up to a million, made in the name of the Minister of Defense: the last frontier of deception

Thanks to the use of software to reproduce his voice, they convinced at least one entrepreneur to pay almost one million euros

“There are captive soldiers to free by paying a ransom.” Other times they were journalists, exploiting the recent case of Cecilia Sala. With this excuse, at least two entrepreneurs have been deceived by a fake Defense Minister Guido Crosetto. Milanese, wealthy, the two were contacted by fraudsters who, also thanks to artificial intelligence to disguise the voices - of the minister himself, a self-styled defense official or a general - tried to o…

'We have journalists kidnapped in Syria'. One paid a million (ANSA)

There are reports that Giorgio Armani and Patrizio Bertelli are also among the entrepreneurs contacted by the alleged fraudsters who would have spent the name of Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to ask for money, even hundreds of thousands of euros, for phantom ransoms to be paid for people, journalists in particular, kidnapped, as they said, in the Middle East. It is one of the details of the investigation by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office…