Italy-Programs.net was darkened after Giorgio Napolitano also appears to have received the payment order.
Perhaps the time has come to close the matter"Italy-Programs.net“: the site, now known for having asked many Italians to pay for subscription services to download software, it was finally darkened.
Despite the numerous complaints and some sentences to pay fines for having perpetuated a scam to the detriment of unsuspecting users, convinced that they were about to download free programs, the Italia-Programmi.net site continued to be reachable. Until today.
Apparently the usual letter – sent for the payment of the sum of 96 euros plus 8.50 euros for various expenses for downloading software – arrived at none other than the Quirinale, to the address of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano.
It seems that this very circumstance triggered the first real public reaction towards the portal, causing itsblackout, at least for now.
This is not the end of the matter: the blackout – carried out by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office – is only preventive, pending further investigations and pronouncements.
It is in fact known that in recent months the Italia-Programmi website has continued to operate as usual, knowing that it was under the scrutiny of the competent authorities. It did so, however, by implementing a trick: during the day, more or less around the usual working hours of public offices and the Antitrust in particular, on the home page of the website there was a notice inviting people to open an account at a price of 8 euros.
Put this way, the issue seemed to have been resolved, as it was transparent and obvious. In reality, in the evening and at night everything went back to how it was before: away with the polite notice and space for the simpler “Create account”, with the start of the registration mechanism and indication of your personal data and with a letter of payment order delivered shortly thereafter.
Many users, scared and unsure of what to do, decided to pay, transferring the requested sum to an IBAN that turned out to belong to a current account in a bank in Cyprus, opened by a company based in the Seychelles.
A complex “money-collecting” matryoshka, therefore, which, despite having been reported and identified, has not been completely stopped.
Developments are expected after this official move by the Italian authorities.
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