About a dozen people have been placed
under investigation in connection with a suspected phone scam in
which users paid for services they never received, Italian
police said on Friday.
The scammed clients were charged without authorising payment,
police said.
Police said the scam had thousands of victims.
Milan prosecutor Francesco Greco said clients had been
"subjected to the worst kind of rip-offs".
He said "the probe is just a symptom of a situation that has to
be brought back under control".
Customers f Italy's three biggest phone companies, Windtre,
Vodafone and Tim, were charged for value-added services they
never received, polcie said.
Greco said he, too, had been a victim of the scammers.
Another high-profile victim was Diana Bracco, heir to the drugs
multinational of the same name.
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