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Beware of extortionists when requesting a loan – El Financiero

Derived from the difficult economic situation she faces, Elena decided to ask for a loan of one thousand 200 pesos. walked up to JoséCash, one of dozens of financial pseudo-companies, used to cheat.

To access the loan Elena gave all her data (address, telephone number and references), but when the 23-year-old woman was notified that her loan had been accepted, the problem began.

And it is that they told him that they were only going to deposit 500 pesos, the rest would be withheld, for commissions and advance payments. So she decided to cancel the request, realizing that she was on the way to becoming a victim of a crime.


A day later, the woman began to receive calls demanding payment of 1,200 pesos; They started out being nice, but then came the verbal aggression, rudeness and threats.

In addition, they tapped into his phone, stole his WhatsApp contact list, and began sending harassing messages to family and friends. She was sent dozens of threatening voice messages. “You’re stupid, you’re out of your mind, you fell on your head as a girl or because the hell you don’t understand that we need your payment, or tell me but to start giving you newsletters (sic)”, they told her in one of the first messages.

They warned her that the interest will go up and then the messages increased in tone until they threatened her that if she did not pay they would go to her house and kidnap her family, so that she would pay off the loan that he never received.


According to the authorities, this is a new modus operandi that is used throughout the country and in which dozens of pseudo-companies have been identified that use the lies of the loans, through social networks, to extort money.

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