Facebook Formalizes Subject for Defrauding and Awards Victim $3 Million Following False Parcel Delivery Scam.

A man was formalized after being accused of defrauding a woman in Punta Arenas, Through the false delivery of a parcel from the Metropolitan region.

According to the fiscal Rina Blanco During the formalization hearing in the Punta Arenas Guarantee Court, the events were recorded on November 1, 2020, when the victim received a message on Facebook from someone who posed as a relative, whom he knows and who lives outside the country.

in the conversation, The subject told him that he would send a package full of gifts for family and friends, but that he needed an address in Chile to enter the parcel.

Given that the victim knew the person in the message, he provided the address for the alleged delivery, according to The Penguin.

However, the next day, she was contacted via WhatsApp by a person who said his name was Javier Duarte, identifying himself as an official from the Arturo Merino Benítez Airport in Santiago, warning her that there was a problem with the entry of the package into Chile.

Due to this supposed problem, the woman had to pay a fine of 3 million 324 thousand pesos or else she would have to be exposed to different legal consequences, using various tricks to convince her that if she did not resolve this, she would have judicial and police difficulties and would be admitted to Dicom.

Due to the above, and motivated by fear, on November 2, 2020, the victim made the deposit for the total amount of money that was required.

At the hearing, the persecutor indicated that the bank account that received the money belongs to Williams Alfonso López Parra, whose address is in Santiago. For this very reason, the man was formalized for the crime of fraud.

Looking for a quick solution, it was agreed to start the procedures to reach an alternative way out, since the defendant agreed to face an abbreviated trial. Meanwhile, the Guarantee Court decreed 60 days to close the investigation.