Pesaro, July 30, 2026 – Freeloading vacationers on the seafront, with two rooms booked for a week, a seafood dinner without sparing expenses, and a bill of almost two thousand euros apparently already paid. The proof was a screenshot of the bank transfer, complete with a QR code. Everything seemed perfect, but not a single euro had arrived in the hotelier’s account. Thus, the vacation turned into an investigation by the police patrol, ending with two fraud reports and two expulsion orders from the city.
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Arrived in Pesaro on July 26
The group, made up of two Italians and two foreigners residing outside the province, had arrived in Pesaro on July 26. They had booked two separate rooms for about a week in a hotel on Viale Trieste and, at least apparently, had immediately paid for the entire stay, for an amount close to 2,000 euros. As a guarantee of the operation, they handed the hotel owner a paper copy of the bank transfer screenshot, which also showed a QR code that made everything seem in order. The evening passed without any suspicion. The four dined in the hotel restaurant, choosing fish and drinks without particular restraint.
Nonexistent bank transfer
The doubt arose only when the hotel owner checked the actual credit on his account. The bank transfer simply did not exist. The screenshot shown at check-in did not correspond to any payment actually made. At that point, it was already too late to trace two of the group members, who had left the hotel in the early hours of the morning. The other two, however, were finishing packing and preparing to leave. The owner immediately called the police patrol, which intervened at the facility and managed to stop them before they could leave.
Fraud charges filed
For the man and the woman, aged between 32 and 36, one residing in Lazio and the other in Emilia-Romagna, fraud charges were filed. The man has a police record, while the woman does not. But that’s not all. The police chief also ordered a mandatory expulsion: they must leave Pesaro and are not allowed to return for the next three years, considering that their presence in the area was not related to work or residence but aimed at committing crimes. Investigators suspect this is not an isolated incident.
A well-established practice
From the checks carried out on the group member with a record, elements compatible with similar past incidents with the same pattern emerged: booking expensive stays, showing false proof of payment, spending a night between hotel rooms and lavish dinners, and leaving before the missing credit is discovered. This time, however, the police took care of the check-out, and investigations continue to identify and track down the two group members who managed to disappear.
