A man has been arrested in connection to a phishing scam that stole and attempted to steal hundreds of unpublished book manuscripts from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ethan Hawke. As reported…
, 29-year-old Filippo Bernardini, a citizen of Italy, was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday after touching down at New York City’s JFK Airport. According to his social media accounts, Bernardini was a rights coordinator for Simon & Schuster UK.
He has been charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in the Southern District of New York. According to the Times, Bernardini does not yet have a lawyer. “This real-life storyline now reads as a cautionary tale, with the plot twist of Bernardini facing federal criminal charges for his misdeeds,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams wrote in a press release, according to the Times.
As to the motivation behind the crime, literary scout Kelly Farber told the Times that the phishing scam gave access to “a huge amount of information that any publisher anywhere would be able to use to their advantage.”
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