Some of Italy’s most well-known business leaders, including fashion designer Giorgio Armani and Prada Bertelli’s Patrizio Bateri, have been artificial intelligence-based, including imitation of the Defense Minister’s voice over a phone claiming they are seeking help. are targeted for fraud. Free Italian journalists invited in the Middle East.
Milan’s prosecutors have received four legal complaints, including Masimo Moratti, the former owner of Intermilan, and members of the Beretta family, the oldest firearms producer in the world. Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said Monday that he would file a legal complaint after the voice was cloned and used in at least one phone call.
At least one of the targets has been known to have fallen due to fraud and has since made two transfers of 1 million euros to their Hong Kong accounts after mistakenly believing they would be refunded to the Italian Bank. Ta.
Closett revealed the scam last week in a social media post after receiving a call from a well-known entrepreneur who transferred large sums of money into his account after he was convinced it was a conversation with the minister. Then two more contacted him. He said he chose to publish the case “so that no one risks falling into a trap.”
Others were targeted by phone claiming it was from Crossett staff.
As of Monday, legal complaints filed include those from members of the Arotti family, who heads the Menalini pharmaceutical company, and members of the family who own the Esselunga supermarket chain. Italian reports say the complaint is expected to be filed by Giorgio Armani.
The first person to file the legal complaint was Moratti, former soccer boss and chairman of the multinational energy company Saras Group. “It all seemed real, they were good, it could happen to anyone,” he told La Repubblica.
Menalini’s board member Lucia Aletti said the company was saved from fraud by a savvy personal assistant called Chiara. “We always get suspicious calls,” she told Corriere Della Sera. “They tried to sell us Caravaggio and Leonardo, which certainly wasn’t the most difficult scam for our assistants.
Aletti said the caller presented himself as “Dr. Giovanni Montalbano.”
“Self-style Montalvano claimed that the minister was in NATO’s office. He left a number of foreigners to call him on the same day. The phone immediately made Chiara doubt. Ta.”
Other targets for elaborate scams include Todd’s owner of Diego de lavare and the executive vice chair of Pirelli at Marco Toroncetti Puvera.
“They are professional con artists who clearly have both technology and the ability to identify targets,” Crossett told the TV show on Sunday. “In this case, they identified the leading Italian entrepreneurs. At the request of the minister, they would be prepared to make a bank transfer, perhaps for their love to Italy.”
This incident occurs amidst the Italian rise in phone fraud using voices cloned by artificial intelligence. The elderly woman scamled 30,000 euros last week after receiving a call from someone she believed was her daughter. She told her that her husband injured his mother and child in a car accident and needed money to pay his lawyer immediately.
