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Italy’s business elite has been scattered by a scandal that has used Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Croseto to use an artificial intelligence-imposed voice that has asked millions of people to be a foreign bank account to be released to release Italian journalists abroad.
This scandal was Pirali Chair Marco Tronchety Provera, Fashion Designer Ghorgio Armani, Porter’s co-founder PatriGio Bartelly, Todd owner Diego Dela Valley, former Inter-Milan Massimo Morti and Mener, including several strong business bargers, and several people in Italy. The person says.
Although many were immediately suspicious, at least one person was persuaded to transfer $ 1 million to a foreign bank account, after false assurance that he would be paid by the Bank of Italy later to pay. So far, three Milanis traders have filed a formal complaint at the city’s prosecutor office, including the scandal.
Authorities, who are familiar with the case, say that the apparent use of AI was involved in imitating multiple round calls from people who were pose as a crossto worker in the fraud. The target was to say that Prime Minister Georgia Meloni’s government had needed their assistance to rescue Italian journalists who were abducted in the Middle East.
An official of the Defense Ministry said, “The minister’s voice was reproduced. “It sought money to ransom for Italian journalists abducted in the world. “I cannot pay with the minister’s money, but you will get a refund from the bank of Italy,” the fake crosseto said. It was a cheating. It wasn’t true. “
Investigators said the calls from the telephone number of the defense minister seemed to have come from the telephone number – which they believe that cloned.
Meloni’s government is just a few weeks after the discussion of a high-profile hostage, these scammers left where a young Italian journalist was Sicilia Sala Free From Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, an Iranian engineer in exchange for Rome wanted a scheme to be sophisticated US drone technology To the revolutionary guards of Iran.
Crosto first heard the alarm of “a serious ongoing scandal” on a social media post last week that he wanted to raise public awareness so that “no one is at risk of falling into the trap”.
The minister said he was a crosseto himself.
Croseto said he later received calls from several other top entrepreneurs who tried to rescue the Italian journalists in the Middle East to become members of his staff.
The Bank of Italy warned Friday that the fraudsters were using its name and logo properly that the central bank would pay for the promise that the rich entrepreneurs had invested as contributors to the fake rescue project.
The statement said, “Banka de Italia is not related to these requests,” the statement said, because it warned people not to respond to such pressure and report to the relevant authorities.
Italian business elites are not the first to not be noticed by the scandal by scandal on the rich people who are interested in the government who are seeking to rescue the hostages.
In France a decade ago, more than one and a half hundred corporate chiefs, states, ambassadors and religious leaders were contacted Scandal When a person claims to be the then French Defense Minister Jan-Yaves Le Dian, he has requested several million euros for a top-casual official operation, including the release of French journalists in Syria.
Although most of the worryingly felt, scammers were able to collect $ 85 million with about $ 20 million from the late Aga Khan, the leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslim. Franco-Israeli Ringlder Gilbert Chikli was convicted of multiple frauds in 2021 and sentenced to five years in prison.
Additional Report by Zuliana Recossi
