A 59-year-old woman in Giugliano lost €10,000 after a caller posing as the local Carabinieri commander convinced her to move her money to supposedly protect it, according to Il Mattino.
The caller used the real name and rank of Filippo Corso, commander of the Carabinieri company in Giugliano, to sound credible. The approach began with an SMS warning about a supposed €1,400 transfer, followed by a telephone call claiming that another fraudulent transfer of €10,000 was about to take place.
During the call, the woman was instructed to transfer the money to an account presented as a safe account intended to protect her savings. She made the transfer and believed the operation was legitimate.
She realized she had been deceived when she went to the Carabinieri station in Giugliano. There she learned that no officer had contacted her and that no reimbursement cheque existed. She reported the incident to the Carabinieri, who opened inquiries to identify those responsible. The identity of the perpetrators has not been reported, and there is no reported information on recovery of the money.
A separate Giugliano case shows the same targeting of local residents by telephone fraudsters. In that incident, a 75-year-old woman handed over approximately €50,000 after a caller falsely claimed that her sons had been arrested. Carabinieri investigations in that case led to a 24-year-old suspect being placed under house arrest on an aggravated-fraud allegation. The available sources do not establish a connection between the two cases.
