"The existence of attempted scams carried out through the use of documents, email addresses or web pages that improperly contain the name and logo of the Bank of Italy and the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) has been detected , even with payment requests speciously attributable to the activities carried out by the institutions themselves".
The Bank of Italy made this known with a notice published on its website.
"By way of example - explains the note -, requests for commissions for anti-money laundering purposes, tax charges or expenses to allow the crediting of sums of money".
"The Bank of Italy and the UIF are completely unrelated to such initiatives; we are therefore invited to be wary of them and not to provide any response to any requests received", continues the note.
The Bank of Italy and the UIF "report incidents of this kind to the competent authorities, reserving any other initiative to protect their interests and their image".
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