A 17 -year -old Italian collaborates with Russian hackers to sell false green pass

A 17 -year -old Italian collaborates with Russian hackers to sell false green pass

The young man, from Rieti, sold false green passes to 150 euros each.Police began investigating after the complaint of a woman from Genoa, victim of a scam from the accused.

The latter used the application of Russian encryption Telegram, on which he sold counterfeit vaccination certificates, with sums of 150 euros.He managed several channels, which gives an idea of the magnitude of the mounted traffic, which hardly resembles that of an amateur - the police was very surprised by discovering who was hiding behind this affair.The person wanting to benefit from a counterfeit Green Pass had to send his identity card, then the young person sent the data to his "colleagues", Russian hackers unidentified for the moment, which gave him instructions on the way of receivingcustomer payment.Then, in addition to using the documents to manufacture the green pass, they usurped the identity of the concerned, and this to open accounts on different online services.

An abuse that costs him dearly

Un Italien de 17 ans collabore avec des hackers russes pour vendre de faux green pass

Not content with selling false certificates at a golden price, the teenager wanted to blackmail a mannequin of Genoa.The woman, who wanted to be able to go to the gym but who did not want to be vaccinated, used her services.But he never sent him the precious sesame;On the contrary, he made his client sing, threatening her to denounce her to the police if she did not send her more money.Unlike the offender's forecasts, the sponge cake went to the police by taking the risk of denouncing herself, in order to file a complaint.

Parents who didn't know anything about it

Rieti's boy has accumulated twenty thousand euros in profits in the space of a few months, which allowed him to invest in cryptocurrencies and to multiply the bots on his Telegram groups.With this money, he also offered many luxury products, from brand clothes to expensive electronic products.This did not alert his parents out of my parents, a couple of doctors, to whom he claimed to earn money by selling online games.The young man is prosecuted for scam and extortion, and will be presented to a tribunal for minors.