“Would you like to live a life on vacation? Earn thousands of euros without risking and with minimal effort? ». Financial scams all begin more or less like this, with an easy promise of money. In the era of social networks, of the smartphones of the “you can have everything, just one click”, being scammed is an increasingly frequent misadventure. «Too easy to be true? Then it’s a scam»He warns the Consob who made a series of videos to warn users of an increasingly rampant phenomenon on the web and help savers defend themselves.
As a testimonial, Consob has chosen the most famous of financial scammers, Charles Ponzian Italian who at the beginning of the twentieth century conceived a mathematical scheme which, while deceiving thousands of Americans, made it very rich. The scam lasted a few months, then Ponti ended up in jail but his scheme is always current. Today, however, the new Ponzi, very hardly end up in jail. In the virtual world, where one click is enough to make whole fortunes disappear, the new scammers are almost unreachable, and so also the savings of the unfortunate Consob and the authorities sift the web, obscuring sites and accounts, but the prevention and repression activity is not sufficient to arrest a delatant phenomenon, sometimes covered by jurisdictions of unlawful countries, such as the Salomon Islands, Balkans and in general the so -called tax havenles. Now, also due to artificial intelligence, these organizations come to use institutional personalities images to hook the victims in the network. These are always unauthorized abusive activities, which once identified are immediately closed, but in the meantime the foxes have already raided in the chicken coop. «They present themselves as real finance experts – explains Oscar Costantini of Consob – they could ask you to register in a trading platform and to open an online account, perhaps by entrying you with a welcome bonus. At the beginning they will make you view your earnings on your account to push you to invest more. But at the time of the collection between failed telephone contacts, alleged bureaucratic delays and other unlikely apologies you understand that your savings have gone smoke »explains Consantini of Consob on the video. Before entrusting your money online, it is good to consult the Consob website in the “Eye to scams” section from where you can access the list of companies authorized to invest in investment activities and online trading.