What an oilman from an oil dynasty had to do with a doctor from Sesto San Giovanni who later became a war surgeon in Afghanistan and other wars around the world, Massimo Moratti himself explained, remembering his "perfect" friend who had ju…

Almeno dieci grandi imprenditori contattati. Tre denunce. Due bonifici andati a buon fine, entrambi legati al nome dello storico presidente dell'Inter Massimo Moratti. Si allarga l'inchiesta sulla banda che spacciandosi per il ministro dell…

Scammers used an artificial intelligence voice tool to impersonate Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto and his staff in an attempt to persuade some of the country’s top businessmen to transfer money abroad.

Prada SpA co-CEO Patrizio Ber…

Italy's business elite has been swept up in a scam that used an intelligence-generated artificial voice imitating Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to ask tycoons to wire millions to offshore bank accounts to help pay ransoms to Itali…

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Italy's business elite has been rocked by a scam that used an artificial intelligence-generated voice imitating Ital…

The rule always applies: follow the money. To try to freeze the loot of the fake Crosetto gang. To understand who the accounts are registered to. To trace the perpetrators of the scam in the name of the head of Defense. And to find out how …

Today the Minister of Defense Crosetto, yesterday (2019) the Minister of Economy Tria. The masters of deception are always one step ahead and those who in the past weeks set up a scam worth millions of euros involving excellent names -- fro…

The latest news is the case of a scam that recently targeted some of Italy's best-known entrepreneurs and professionals, using the name of Defence Minister Guido Crosetto. The scammers, probably using advanced technologies such as artificia…

Some of Italy's biggest businessmen have been victims of an attempted fraud by a group of criminals who used an artificial intelligence (AI) program to simulate the voice of the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto. Their goal was to ask the…

Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has alerted the public to a scam in which imposters use artificial intelligence to clone his voice and solicit funds from wealthy businessmen. Scammers impersonate Crosetto and claim to need urgent fu…

Some of Italy's biggest businessmen have been victims of an attempted fraud by a group of criminals who used an artificial intelligence program to simulate the voice of the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, and asked them to hand over la…

Guido Crosetto, Italy's defense minister, described the incident as a "serious scam" that targeted some of the country's most important tycoons, including fashion designer Giorgio Armani, former Inter Milan owner Massimo Moratti, Prada co-f…

Some of Italy’s best-known business leaders, including the fashion designer Giorgio Armani and the Prada chair, Patrizio Bertelli, have been targeted by an artificial intelligence-based scam that involved the mimicking of the defence minist…

The false "Crosetto" scam was a great job by professionals, but on a smaller scale something general can also affect a larger audience: anyone who happens to manage bank transfers in a company for example; not necessarily managers. It has a…

The international scam. Professionals in Italy, possible insiders abroad, accounts from Holland to Hong Kong. Defined roles: the minister, the official, the general. But also the accountant who makes the loot from the telephone raids disapp…

Caro Merlo, anche a me la "truffa del falso Crosetto" ha reso simpatico Massimo Moratti, truffato per generosità. Ma siamo in minoranza. Prevalgono frizzi e lazzi, lo scherno di quelli che non se la bevono. Gli italiani godono se il truffat…

Giorgio Armani and other Italian billionaire businessmen have been victims of an attempted fraud by a group of scammers who, through Artificial Intelligence, cloned the voice of Guido Crosettol, the Minister of Defense of Giorgia Meloni (ht…

Giorgio Armani and other great Italian billionaire businessmen have been victims of an attempted fraud by a group of scammers who, through Artificial Intelligence, cloned the voice of the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, in order to don…

Italian Minister Guido Crosetto has joked that fake copies of all masterpieces exist, after alerting the public to the scheme

Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has declared his voice a “masterpiece,” after discovering that scammers us…

A sophisticated digital scam has targeted Italian business leaders, including designer Giorgio Armani and Prada chairman Patrizio Bertelli. The scammers used artificial intelligence to clone the voice of Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, ask…

Several prominent Italian businessmen have been the victims of a sophisticated scam in which criminals used an artificial intelligence-generated voice to pretend to be the defense minister, Guido Crosetto.

The defense minister's voice tried…

Some of Italy’s most prominent business leaders, including fashion designer Giorgio Armani and Prada chairman Patrizio Bertelli, have been targeted by an artificial intelligence-based scam that involved impersonating the defense minister in…

The complaint of the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto has been filed with the Carabinieri, in which he explains, in more detail than he had already done on social media, the telephone scam to the detriment of the elite of Italian business…

MILAN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Italian police have found and frozen nearly one million euros ($1.04 million) that was wired to a foreign bank account by a leading businessman after he fell victim to an artificial intelligence scam, officials sai…

The scammers used AI technology to mimic the voice of Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, making phone calls requesting urgent financial support for the release of Italian journalists kidnapped in the Middle East.

The targeted victims …