Pure Bros, what has Wind done?
At the request of the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office, the investigating judge Stefania Nobile ordered the preventive seizure of € 21.2 million from Wind for the alleged crime of "computer fraud". All the details and the role of the Pure Bros company
Paid games, ringtones, horoscopes on the smartphone without the users' knowledge. Pure Bros. is responsible for fraud against Wind, Tim and Vodafone customers for the activation of subscriptions to unsolicited services.
But are telephone operators really not to blame? For the investigating judge Stefania Nobile, these too have responsibilities. And that's why he ordered the seizure of € 21.2 million of Wind, with the hypothesis of computer fraud. All the details.
THE SEQUESTRO
Let's start with the news. At the request of the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office, the investigating judge Stefania Nobile ordered the preventive seizure of € 21.2 million from Wind for the alleged crime of "computer fraud", Corriere della Sera says .
REVENUES FROM THE SCAM
The amount seized is equal to the "percentage of forfeited by Wind for peacefully activated services with fraudulent methods" to November 2018 by the manufacturers of Brightmobi and Yoom content through the technology platform Pure Bros. The latter, in fact, is disputes, the illegal activation, without the knowledge of the customers, of subscription services with additional costs charged directly to the user's sim.
INVESTIGATED THREE MANAGERS WIND
And for computer fraud – as Corriere della Sera wrote in July – three former Wind executives are also being investigated, Alessandro Lavezzari, Luigi Saccà, son of the former general manager Rai Agostino, and the commercial Fabio De Grenet, already in the sights of the prosecutor's office last summer, over the criminal queue of a bitter civil dispute between Pure Bros and a supplier.
GIP: REBUILD RESPONSIBILITY
Others could be added to the three. The investigating judge Stefania Nobile, in fact, wants to see clearly in this matter and, on the basis of the investigation by the prosecutor Francesco Cajani and the deputy prosecutor Eugenio Fusco, asks to "better outline in the Wind organization chart who, aware of the fraudulent mechanism, had the power-duty to take action to report it to the competent authorities and / or terminate contracts ”, writes the Corriere.
THE COMPENSATION OF WIND
Meanwhile, WindTre has announced that it has already compensated users for a total of 20 million. Reimbursement, however, which according to the investigating judge is not relevant, since it concerned services activated between February and August 2019, a period of time following the last payment made to Brightmobi and Yoom by Pure Bros, "which had in the meantime been recognized by Wind 50% of the profit on each activated user ".
WHAT PURE BROS
Let's take a step back. Founded in 2005, Pure Bros deals with the development of digital services for mobile marketing and mobile payment, mobile applications and platforms for interactivity and television “voting” on telecommunications networks.
Pure Bros, in particular, is a hub on which telephone companies (including Wind) rely for the management of value-added services. The company, which develops and creates applications, is also the owner, as stated on the website, of Pure Payment, "one of the most reliable and secure payment systems for charging value-added services directly to the user's telephone bill" . It is a payment gateway that aggregates all Telco payment circuits: SMS Premium, WAP Billing and Mobile Payment.
The company also works with the most important national and international television networks to provide partial and final voting results in real time in the various programs. Among the services offered also Bulk messages, or the notice of receipt and reading of the message.
THE SHAREHOLDERS AND BOARD
Two partners, 50% -50%, of the company, which has a share capital of 100,000 euros : Angelo Salvetti and Pavan Altino. Salvetti is chairman of the board of directors, while the managing director is Fabio Pascuzzo. Another member of the board of directors is Marco Strabbioli.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/pure-bros-che-cosa-ha-fatto-wind/ on Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:02:08 +0000.