Decreto Flussi Scam Exposed:

Decreto Flussi Scam Exposed: How the Scheme Worked and How to Protect Yourself

⚠️ They paid up to €9,000 for a job that never existed. 📍 NAPLES · 9 MARCH 2026

Naples Mobile Squad, at the request of the Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, arrested 18 people in one of the largest Decreto Flussi fraud cases ever uncovered in Italy. The ring was led by a 63-year-old employee of Naples Labour Inspectorate. Police blocked around 3,000 fraudulent applications.

The scheme was simple and ruthless. Middlemen promised regular work in Italy for €15,000–20,000. Data was passed to Italian professionals who submitted applications on click day using fake digital identities of non-existent companies.

When migrants arrived in Italy, they found: the companies didn’t exist, had gone bankrupt, or never showed up at the prefecture to sign the contract. They had already sold everything. Gone into debt. Couldn’t go back home. Many ended up working illegally — in farms, textile factories, restaurants — still depending on the same middlemen for housing.

🚨 How to recognise the scam

🔴 Someone contacts you promising a “guaranteed” nulla osta or contract through Decreto Flussi

🔴 They ask for money upfront — from thousands to tens of thousands of euros

🔴 Documents look official. The company name is real. Everything seems legitimate.

🔴 You arrive in Italy. The employer has vanished, gone bankrupt, or never existed.

🔴 You become undocumented — through no fault of your own.

✅ What you need to know

✅ Nobody can sell you a place in the Decreto Flussi quota

✅ A legitimate employer never charges you to hire you

✅ Click day is a public procedure — anyone promising private access is lying

✅ If someone asks for money for a nulla osta — it is a scam

🆘 Already paid? Contact the Sportello Unico per l’Immigrazione in your city or the nearest CGIL patronato. You are the victim — not the criminal. You have the right to report it.

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