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CEO Fraud Fraud Banks: Two Other Institutions Cheated for 26 Million

CEO Fraud Fraud Banks: Two Other Institutions Cheated for 26 Million

Ground.News • September 26, 2026

Italy's largest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, has fallen victim to fraud committed using AI. The scammers managed to steal tens of millions of euros by using a deepfake voice. The fraud began in February, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera discovered. At that time, the bank's then-chairman of the private banking division received a message via WhatsApp that appeared to come from Intesa Sanpaolo CEO Carlo Messina. He urgently requested assistanc…

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Disappeared 39.5 million of Intesa Sanpaolo's subsidiary

CEO Fraud Fraud Banks: Two Other Institutions Cheated for 26 Million

With messages, mails and calls made with the voice modified by artificial intelligence the scammers are targeting the credit institutions. There is not only the case of the former president of Fideuram Paolo Molesini: the Public Prosecutor of Milan is investigating two other alleged scams against banks. In the first case, a manager would have authorized last May, through scam, operations for 24 million euros. The second case on which inves…

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The scam with AI to Intesa Sanpaolo leaves 36 million unrecovered: they cloned the voice of the CEO to order billionaire transfers. La entrada The scam with AI of 36 million to Intesa Sanpaolo: the biggest bank in Italy falls into a deepfake aparece primero en Merca2.

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