An operation by the carabinieri of the Taurianova station led to the capture of An entrepreneur accused of aggravated fraud against a local nursery. The uncensored man, owner of a flower in the center of Reggio Calabria, for more than a year he took advantage of the good faith of the owner of the nursery, obtaining plants and ornamental flowers without ever paying the necessary.
To cover its tracks, he used a fraudulent technique: cancel the payments made through the POS, however, making the owners of the nursery believe that the payment had been regularly made. The modus operandi of the scammer was in fact always the same: presenting himself at the nursery, select the desired products and, once in the cashier, to be delivered the POS terminal. Only then did the scam mechanism come into action, with the arrested man who, after having passed his credit card on the terminal and printed the receipt, distracted the banconist the time necessary to type the cancellation code of the operation just first carried out. This mechanism, which man has repeated for forty times, has allowed him to obtain goods with a value of over 60,000 euros Without ever actually paying, taking advantage of the good faith of the merchant and the electronic payment system.
The owner of the nursery, initially convinced that the transactions were regular, had not noticed the deception. However, when the volume of the canceled transactions increased, it started to suspect something strange and requested a verification of the operations. Only at that point did it emerge that the scammer was systematically canceling the payments made with the POS, leaving the shop with goods with a considerable value and without any feedback. The report to the carabinieri of Taurianova was therefore immediate.
This is how the military, coordinated by the prosecutor of Palmi Emanuele Crescenti and by the substitute Letterio De Domenico, decided to grasp the author of the scam on the fact that, unaware of having been discovered, had contacted the victim saying interested in “buying” other plants. This time, however, behind the counter found the commander of the Carabinieri station and his men.
To date, the accusations have found a preliminary acceptance in the validation from the arrest carried out by the investigating judge of Palmi, who towards the man has ordered house arrest.