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11-08-2022, 09:05 PM
Radio Sintonia:
Scam in Fuerteventura worth about 3,000 euros.
The Equipo@ of the island of Fuerteventura, within the framework of the Gadar investigation, identified on August 8 two people residing in the province of Aragon and Valencia, 41 and 29 years old respectively and with a Police record for the alleged authorship of a crime of fraud, in the form of "Nigerian Scam" to have deceived a person resident in Fuerteventura, getting him to transfer the total amount of 2,850 euros through 2 bank transfers of 730 euros and 2,120 euros.
The Civil Guard was aware as a result of a single complaint filed in March by a man in dependencies of the Main Post of Corralejo, in which the injured person reported being the victim of a scam by having made two transfers to unlock an alleged package retained in customs, which contained a significant sum of Money, ignoring the complainant how much Money it was.
Likewise, the scam began with an alleged friendship relationship, through a well-known social network, in which the criminals from the beginning created a false identity and profile to make the victim believe that a friendship relationship had been established, to gain their trust. Therefore, the authors of the acts propose to send him a package with a significant sum of Money, which the injured party had to guard until the delivery in person to his owner, once he arrived in Spain, since it was abroad, and that for such custody he would receive a percentage of that saved capital.
Finally, when the victim accepts the deal and is waiting for the package to arrive, the criminals pose as customs agents, who communicate that the package he is waiting for is being held, and that to unlock it he must pay fees, which the victim pays through two transfers, realizing later, when the criminals continued demanding Money, that he could be the victim of a scam.
Investigations and identification
The Equipo@ of the island of Fuerteventura in the exercise of his specific functions in the field of Cybercrime, collected all the data on the Events that occurred, realizing that the alleged fraudster had used a "mule" bank account as a tool to receive the victim's Money.
For all these reasons, the Civil Guard carried out the appropriate Police investigations and various steps to clarify the Events that occurred, including managing to identify two people as possible perpetrators of a crime of fraud.
Nigerian scams
Nigerian scams or Nigerian letters are scams that were formerly perpetuated by sending potential victims letters on paper with a false story, of very variable content, with which it was sought to trick them into voluntarily contributing certain amounts of Money to that cause.
The casuistry was varied, but the best known are those in which the stories were referring to random prizes in which it was selected, inheritances pending collection, stories of charity, military abroad with great fortunes that need to return to the country, etc., looking with such stories that the victims voluntarily advanced payments to the criminals.
With the arrival of new technologies, the missives sent currently are made by mass referral by emails, social networks, instant messaging, etc., exponentially increasing the number of possible victims.
Safety tips. How to avoid these types of scams?
The Civil Guard advises to ignore and not respond to this type of messages, in which out of nowhere it turns us into prize winners or people to receive high amounts of Money, in which we are commonly asked voluntarily to send Money without having contrasted the information.
In addition, it is recommended to distrust profiles on social networks in which they seek a relationship of affectivity or friendship suddenly, lacking such data profiles that verify the identity of that person, even if the vast majority of them do not have a relationship of friends, which can be a clear indication that they are suspicious profiles created specifically in a massive way to try to deceive the possible victims.
Scam in Fuerteventura worth about 3,000 euros.
The Equipo@ of the island of Fuerteventura, within the framework of the Gadar investigation, identified on August 8 two people residing in the province of Aragon and Valencia, 41 and 29 years old respectively and with a Police record for the alleged authorship of a crime of fraud, in the form of "Nigerian Scam" to have deceived a person resident in Fuerteventura, getting him to transfer the total amount of 2,850 euros through 2 bank transfers of 730 euros and 2,120 euros.
The Civil Guard was aware as a result of a single complaint filed in March by a man in dependencies of the Main Post of Corralejo, in which the injured person reported being the victim of a scam by having made two transfers to unlock an alleged package retained in customs, which contained a significant sum of Money, ignoring the complainant how much Money it was.
Likewise, the scam began with an alleged friendship relationship, through a well-known social network, in which the criminals from the beginning created a false identity and profile to make the victim believe that a friendship relationship had been established, to gain their trust. Therefore, the authors of the acts propose to send him a package with a significant sum of Money, which the injured party had to guard until the delivery in person to his owner, once he arrived in Spain, since it was abroad, and that for such custody he would receive a percentage of that saved capital.
Finally, when the victim accepts the deal and is waiting for the package to arrive, the criminals pose as customs agents, who communicate that the package he is waiting for is being held, and that to unlock it he must pay fees, which the victim pays through two transfers, realizing later, when the criminals continued demanding Money, that he could be the victim of a scam.
Investigations and identification
The Equipo@ of the island of Fuerteventura in the exercise of his specific functions in the field of Cybercrime, collected all the data on the Events that occurred, realizing that the alleged fraudster had used a "mule" bank account as a tool to receive the victim's Money.
For all these reasons, the Civil Guard carried out the appropriate Police investigations and various steps to clarify the Events that occurred, including managing to identify two people as possible perpetrators of a crime of fraud.
Nigerian scams
Nigerian scams or Nigerian letters are scams that were formerly perpetuated by sending potential victims letters on paper with a false story, of very variable content, with which it was sought to trick them into voluntarily contributing certain amounts of Money to that cause.
The casuistry was varied, but the best known are those in which the stories were referring to random prizes in which it was selected, inheritances pending collection, stories of charity, military abroad with great fortunes that need to return to the country, etc., looking with such stories that the victims voluntarily advanced payments to the criminals.
With the arrival of new technologies, the missives sent currently are made by mass referral by emails, social networks, instant messaging, etc., exponentially increasing the number of possible victims.
Safety tips. How to avoid these types of scams?
The Civil Guard advises to ignore and not respond to this type of messages, in which out of nowhere it turns us into prize winners or people to receive high amounts of Money, in which we are commonly asked voluntarily to send Money without having contrasted the information.
In addition, it is recommended to distrust profiles on social networks in which they seek a relationship of affectivity or friendship suddenly, lacking such data profiles that verify the identity of that person, even if the vast majority of them do not have a relationship of friends, which can be a clear indication that they are suspicious profiles created specifically in a massive way to try to deceive the possible victims.