A nightmare of deception and manipulation. This is how the family of a man who died, allegedly due to negligence, experienced the grief of the husband and father in a hospital. The scam occurred in City of Telde in Las Palmasbut this was orchestrated by a neighbor from Almeria.
The National Police managed to arrest the woman who was posing as a lawyer and He took more than 50,000 euros from a mother and her daughterAs reported by the National Police, the fraudster was the partner of an acquaintance of the deceased, a circumstance she took advantage of to get closer to the victims in difficult times.
Thus, with calculating opportunism, she presented herself to the widow and daughter of the deceased as a registered lawyer and offered her professional services. The aim was to initiate a so-called lawsuit against the hospital, promised justice and ample compensation to compensate for the pain suffered.
The scammer, without any scruples, assured them that she could get some 889,000 euros for the daughter and 588,000 euros for the widow. According to the story, the fake lawyer told them that she had played a role in the courts and that she personally knew the judge who would be in charge of the case. With this presentation, it seemed that everything was under control and the deceased’s relatives trusted her.
Little by little, the web of lies was orchestrated with the help of a legal language that seemed convincing to the scammer’s victims. He soon began demanding various sums of money under the pretext of covering the costs of the proceedings and other legal proceedings.
In this way, the woman who claimed to be a lawyer gave false hopes and the sums of money she received were increasingly greater, until leaves the family on the brink of ruin. Although she had charged them more than 50,000 euros, the scammer asked for more money again, asking for 28,000 euros, but when she saw that the victims could not pay, she lowered the amount to 5,000 euros. This abrupt change aroused the suspicions of the widow and daughter of the deceased.
The women went to court and found out that no prosecution was brought. Following the complaint, the National Police launched a joint operation between the police stations of Telde, Tenerife and Almería. The officers identified the detainee, checked the money movements in her accounts and confirmed that she was not registered as a lawyer. In addition, it was discovered that the woman already had a history of similar scams.
The investigation also revealed that the prisoner almost immediately transferred the sums received to foreign bank accounts. This circumstance, added to the fact that this person has not tried at any time to hide his true identity, suggests that he has no fear of the action of justice and that he intends to take advantage of the money he has obtained after complying with the sentence imposed on him. The swindler, a resident of Almeria, was placed at the disposal of the Court of Instruction 3 of the Andalusian capital, which ordered his provisional release.
