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Woman arrested in Tenerife for scamming 10,000 euros by renting fake houses

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Woman arrested in Tenerife for scamming 10,000 euros by renting fake houses

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He had defrauded around twenty people on the island with false rentals

Arrest by the national police, archive photo EFE/NATIONAL POLICE

Laura Bautista

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

The National Police arrested a 57-year-old woman as the alleged perpetrator of at least ten crimes of fraud linked to the rental of housing, for which she had reached scam worth more than 10,000 euros.

Three students from the island of Tenerife reported this scam and launched an investigation, finding up to nine other complaints for almost the same facts at one point. twenty victims. The inmate allegedly used the same procedure with everyone, defrauding them of around 10,000 euros.

The accused person distributed the properties via a website, after which he contacted his future victims by telephone, providing them with a false identity. Then he asked them payment of a first monthly payment plus another as a deposit, in addition to sending your personal documents to complete the rental procedures.

The detained woman either met the victims personally or demanded money via bank transfer, cutting off any type of communication after receiving the payments, which ranged between 900 and 1,100 euros. After the necessary investigations, the woman was arrested and then placed at the disposal of the competent judicial authority for alleged acts. crime of fraud linked to the rental of accommodation.


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