“One is not serious when one is 17”, wrote Rimbaud. More than a century later, the adjective “serious” can be replaced by “honest” for a young Toulousain. Indeed, the 17-year-old teenager is suspected of being the mastermind of many scams “with fake bank advisers”. He was indicted on Friday in Paris, along with another minor and seven adults.
According The Dispatchwhich revealed the story, the young man telephoned people, pretending to be an official of the BNP fraud department, telling them that their accounts had been hacked, with precise information on their financial situation, before ask to validate on their phone a “refund notification”, makes it a trap, always according to the daily.
Several hundred thousand euros of minimum damage
The Dispatch indicates that “thousands of people were defrauded between January 2022 and March 2023”. According to a source close to the case, the damage would be at this stage several hundred thousand euros, but could be reassessed upwards if new victims declare themselves.
These nine people were arrested on Tuesday, according to the source familiar with the matter. Presented to a Parisian investigating judge on Friday, according to the judicial source, they were indicted for organized gang scams, criminal association, money laundering, several offenses related to automated data processing systems, collection of character data personal, concealment of crime. In addition to the minor placed in pre-trial detention, the other eight people were placed under judicial supervision, according to the judicial source.