The Civil Guard has arrested, in a macro-operation against cybercrime, 33 people and investigated 7 others in the provinces of Alicante, Valencia, Murcia and Madrid, as alleged perpetrators with varying degrees of participation in various crimes in the field of cybercrime, computer damage, money laundering and belonging to a criminal group. An operation that began a few months ago in Burgos.
Thanks to this operation, several bank accounts were blocked and 133,500 euros recovered, which represents a third of the total money (400,000 euros) moved by the cyber-crooks.
Those affected are spread across Spain, although at least 16 of them reside in the province of Burgos. Those arrested and investigated have been brought to justice.
The investigations began last May, following complaints filed by several people living in Burgos, where they claimed to have been victims of cyber scams in different ways.
Continuing the investigations, the agents managed to determine the existence of a group of people involved in various types of scams, frauds and deceptions in several Spanish provinces.
Subsequently, officers were able to verify that the people involved used various and complex fraud techniques to try to make the work of the police more difficult.
One of them consisted of contacting victims via social networks to offer them financial sums, which they never received, in exchange for photographs.
To do this, they previously asked for money. Another technique is the Romance Scam method, where the victim is deceived by a friend “live” via videoconference to obtain money and/or help in his favor, under sentimental promises or by arousing a feeling of pity.
They also engaged in the fraudulent sale of tickets for shows advertised on websites linked to the second-hand goods trade or used the so-called “son in distress” scam, where the scammers pretend to be the victim’s son to ask for a financial sum when they find themselves in difficulty.
