I’ve been contacted by so-called agents operating for ENI and Novamont through emails and registered letters. They’re presenting themselves as official ‘representatives’ of ENI and Novamont.

Usually, in the case of social hacking … the scammers will ask for money, official documents and bank account / credit card details.

In this case, they were just asking for my ID documents.

Social hackers, the perpetrators of social hacking, will try to convince you that there’s some kind of problems between you and some other party (for instance ENI or Novamont) and that you can solve it by doing something: paying money, providing your credit card details or ID cards, etc.

At first glance, this alleged scam seem to be very elaborated as this agent handled in name of ENI and Novamont and seemed to be aware of specific files.

He asked me for my ID so I sent him a copy of my ID card.

Then, I asked this person to provide his official (ID) documents and letters to proof who he was and to establish his relationship with ENI and Novamont.

He replied that my ID card was not correctly sent to him and that parts of the card were missing.

Then I panicked and I thought that I had been scammed by a boiler room.

So I decided to write this article to expose this boiler room scam.

Eventually, It took him 12 days to provide his official documents. I found it very suspicious that it took him so long to send his (ID) documents and proofs. And even then, when he sent his official ID documents, I though they were fake, because it’s easy to fake documents today.

He took and angry tone to communicate with me because I had published this article and he started to threaten me with all types of legal procedures.

I thought, it’s not possible that a professional lawyer will talk to me on such a tone: an emotional tone. usually, lawyers are professional, they’re never angry and they remain ratiopnal. So I was hesitating: was it a scam or was it real?

So I wasn’t reassured and some parts of me still believed that it was a very elaborated scam. Some parts of me believed it was genuine. His tone of voice was misplaced and I thought.

Here’s how the initial article ended:

Beware of this. Check everything as they could be connected to people (employees, external consultants) from Novamont and ENI so they will be able to bring up information that sounds credible.

Please reach out to ENI and Novamont and tell them that criminal organisations are misusing their names to scam and rip people off.

Even if I don’t consider myself in a honeymoon relationship with ENI and Novamont, I will not tolerate fraudulent activities under their name because it is intended to scam honest and naive people.

Eventually, I found out that it wasn’t a scam.

Anyway, it’s important to be careful when it comes to fraud, scams and ponzi schemes.

Do not always believe the emails that you receive. Social hackers are very well organised.