The Team @ of the Civil Guard of Bizkaia, within the framework of Operation ‘FURUFO’, has arrested one person and investigated another for defrauding through the ‘Bizum Reverse Fraud’ by pretending to be workers from a vehicle buying and selling company. Among those affected, there are people from Cantabria
As reported by the Bizkaia Command of the General Directorate of the Civil Guard in a statement, both men, residents of the province of Cádiz, have been arrested and investigated as alleged perpetrators of a crime of swindling several people who were offering their private vehicles. on the Internet.
They have also reported that these two people They contacted by telephone with others who were offering their vehicles on Internet buying and selling pages, becoming interested in the car, and After reaching a deal, as a deposit, they sent a payment message through a credit application to formalize the purchase of the vehicle, which was actually a request for money.
La Benemérita has indicated that there are scammers in the provinces of Bizkaia, Huelva, Badajoz, Cantabria, Ourense, Ciudad Real, Alicante and the Community of Madrid
The detainee and the person under investigation pretended to be workers at a company that buys and sells second-hand vehicles and were interested in purchasing the cars offered.
FRAUD THROUGH BIZUM
The Civil Guard has warned that the Bizum Reverse Fraud consists of cybercriminals sending money requests through Bizum to customers of the service and they, without realizing it, accept the money transfer. They have stressed that fraud is based on deceiving the user, since they believe they are receiving a payment, when in reality they are being requested.
A woman resident in the province of Bizkaia appeared at the beginning of this year at the Bizkaia Civil Guard Command headquarters to report that several amounts of money had been stolen from her bank account through unauthorized transfers, the Civil Guard explained. According to her story to the agents, a man contacted her by telephone interested in the vehicle she was offering on an Internet page.
The scammer presented himself as a salesperson for a well-known national vehicle sales company and was interested in purchasing your car. To gain the trust of the scammed woman, in addition to providing information about the aforementioned company, she accepted the sale price stated in the advertisement from the first moment.
To carry out the deception, he required a series of bank details from the complainant, making him believe that he was going to receive an amount of money as a signal. The victim then received a communication via SMS indicating that they were going to receive a deposit through a payment application, but what they were actually accepting was a transfer of money from their account to the scammer.
The complainant would have accepted two requestsone for 300 euros and another for an amount greater than 500 euros, and as soon as the scam was completed, the alleged salesperson blocked the complainant and deleted the messages exchanged with her.
POLICE INVESTIGATION
The civil guards of Team @ discovered the traceability of the money shipments, and found out that one had been withdrawn in cash at an ATM located in the town of Cádiz and the other was used for the online purchase of a high-end video game console.
After studying the tracking of the product, it was purchased at a well-known computer store and delivered to an address located two hundred meters from the ATM where the cash had been withdrawn.
During the investigation, similar complaints could be collected for having shared the same modus operandi, Therefore, more scammers could be identified, not only the complainant from Bizkaia, but in seven other provinces, specifically in the Community of Madrid, Huelva, Badajoz, Cantabria, Ourense, Ciudad Real and Alicante.
Once the initial investigation phase was completed, the agents traveled to the town of Cádiz last June, and were able to verify that two men with very different roles were committing this scam.
Among their tasks, one made withdrawals at the ATM and received the technological products acquired with the scams to later sell them, thus obtaining cash, while the other provided his mobile terminal to contact the scammers and be able to perpetrate the scam. deception.
The civil guards proceeded to arrest one of the perpetrators and investigate the other for the commission of two crimes of fraud.
The Civil Guard has offered guidelines for action if you have been a victim of this scam and has advised reporting the user on the buying and selling platform so that the appropriate measures can be carried out from there.
It also recommends collecting all possible evidence, filing a complaint at the nearest Civil Guard post and going to your bank with a copy of the complaint to try to recover the stolen money.
La Benemérita has also recalled that it makes the telephone number 062 and also the free mobile alert service AlertCops app available to citizens and has indicated that any information that is desired to be provided or collaborate in the field of prevention of smuggling and other criminal offenses, technological or environmental crimes among others, will be treated discreetly and anonymously.
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