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December 20, 2019They would have scammed unsuspecting victims with the complicity of postal and bank officials, capable of supplying their names with sensitive data to drain their savings. The Carabinieri of the Roma Eur Company are carrying out an ordinance in the provinces of Rome and Naples that orders precautionary measures against 19 suspects (10 in prison, 8 under house arrest and an obligation to stay), held responsible, in various capacities, for association to commit a crime aimed at the undue use of credit cards and computer fraud, through unauthorized access to a computer or telecommunications system, as well as personal substitution, fraud, receiving and recycling. Among those arrested were a deputy director of a post office and a bank clerk who had the role of insuring insider information and a lawyer from the Rome Forum with international connections.