The Civil Guard has opened an investigation nine people in Madrid, Tenerife, Barcelona, Jaén, Valencia and Salamanca that were part of a group dedicated to Internet scams, that they obtained through advertisements of false loans in a portal for the sale of second hand products.
According to Benemérita sources, the investigations began in the last quarter of 2021, when the ‘Equipment @‘ of the Command of Salamanca initiated two investigations with the same strategy, the advertisement of false loans through the Internet.
‘modus operandi’
The group offeredquick economic solutions” and “financing for all” through the Internet and, when someone was interested, they were informed of the granting of a loan “in advantageous conditions and without the difficulties that such a procedure would entail in a bank entity”.
In order to receive the borrowed money, the criminals required the contribution of small amounts of money as “loan formalization expenses”, a process in which some of the victims he paid more than 5,200 euros “until realizing that they were being victim of a scam and that in reality they had not granted him any loan”.
The police investigation has lasted for several months and has made it possible to ascertain the identification of those allegedly responsible for the events and their investigation as alleged perpetrators of bank fraud.
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The operation, carried out from Salamanca, has been hampered “at all times” by various security measures that the criminals took as false bank accounts, telephones in the name of non-existent people and perpetrators scattered throughout different parts of the peninsula and “with no apparent connection”.
With this investigation, the Civil Guard of Salamanca has remarked that “it has not only achieved clarify two crimes of fraudbut above all stop an illegal activitymainly aimed at defrauding people with economic problems”.