From Alicante, the organization operated throughout Spain and, in fact, victims have been located in the provinces of Alicante, Albacete, Barcelona, Castellón, Cuenca, Madrid, Murcia, Tarragona and Valencia, although the Civil Guard continues with the investigations into In order to find more affected, since it is expected that there will be many more, as reported by the armed institute in a statement.
In October 2020, at the Santa Pola Civil Guard Post, a person reported since he had discovered that the amount he owed to a fast credit company, which he had resorted to to request a loan, was much higher than the requested.
From the credit institution they confirmed that this additional amount was due to the installation of an air conditioning unit, which the injured party affirms that it never existed. The Investigation Area of the Civil Guard of Santa Pola began the investigations and located five other victims of similar scams with the same modus operandi.
This way of acting consisted in the creation of web pages destined to obtain fast credits, which, by means of different techniques, achieved great visibility in internet search engines, especially in the most used ones. To attract their victims, they offered very advantageous credit conditions.
To request the credit, the applicant had to fill in some data fields and, almost immediately, received a call from the scammers confirming the operation and requesting the latest personal and financial data.
COMPANY DISPLAY
Once they obtained all the necessary data and using the air conditioning company that the alleged leader ran as a “front company”, the scammers resorted to legitimate financial institutions to request a loan of an amount well above what was requested. by the victim. Once they got the money, they paid the injured person the amount initially requested into his bank account.
From that moment on, the victims began to pay the fees normally to the legitimate credit institution, from which they did not receive any notification or mail because the scammers had already taken care of diverting any type of direct contact.
BETWEEN 15,000 AND 20,000 EUROS
To date, twelve victims have been located from all over the national territory, to whom the perpetrators have defrauded a total of between 15,000 to 20,000 euros. However, due to the way this organization operates, there may be a large number of people who, even having suffered this scam, are not aware of it.
In February the Civil Guard of Santa Pola already detained two women and is investigating two others, of Spanish nationality and between 39 and 46 years old, residents in the town of El Campello, in relation to these events. The detainees were handed over to Court No. 4 of Elche, and have been released with charges.
Finally, this Tuesday, after an arduous task by the Civil Guard Research Area, the alleged leader of the organization was arrested in the town of San Juan de Alicante, a 40-year-old man of Spanish nationality.
In order to avoid police action, this person continually changed both his means of location and his address. The arrested man has been brought to justice and has also been released on charges. All of them are charged with the crimes of usurpation of civil status, continued crime of fraud and belonging to a criminal group.
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