Valencia (EFE).- Agents of the National Police have arrested two people in Valencia, a man and a woman, as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of fraud and identity theft, since they made fraudulent purchases on the Internet for a value of about 800,000 euros that have left a trail of nearly 400 victims throughout Spain.
The investigations began at the beginning of the year 2021, after receiving a complaint from a company whose purpose is to facilitate the purchase in installments in which the fraudulent use of documentation and data of some of its clients was communicated to commit scams.
Specifically, it was indicated that fraudulent purchases had been made over the Internet, in a specific virtual store, where mobile terminals were mainly purchased, police sources have reported.
The scammers’ modus operandi was to buy different products from an online store by using fake or forged identities. When the date of payment of the first financing installment arrived, obtained through the company that facilitated the purchase in installments, the payment was not made.
After a laborious investigation, the agents identified a suspect, who shortly after opening a bank account began to create virtual cards, a total of 679, which were used to make purchases in virtual commerce, financed by the company that facilitated payments. in installments. To do this, she used false affiliations or true data extracted from stolen or lost documentation.
PURCHASES COLLECTED ON THE STREET
The purchases that were made in most cases were received on public roads by people other than those listed in the financing contract, where prepaid numbers acquired online or with false information appeared as contact telephone numbers.
The investigators were also able to identify the person in charge of collecting the packages sent, always on the street and in locations far from their home.
This person had a profile in a buying and selling application, where he advertised fraudulently obtained products, which had a great market outlet because they were next-generation mobile phones and computer devices by selling them at prices below market prices.
The two suspects, a man in charge of preparing the false documentation, requesting the financing, collecting the purchased products and selling them through buying and selling applications, and a woman who would be dedicated to contracting the virtual cards, were located and detained by the agents as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of fraud and identity theft.
These two people, aged 20 and 22, of Argentine and Bolivian origin, respectively, have already gone to court.
INTERVENED DOCUMENTATION
The police officers also searched the arrestee’s home, where they located and intervened two USB flash drives, 21 SIM cards and three mobile phones, as well as computer devices with data related to the criminal act, such as 500 digitized DNIs, manipulated documentation, numerous documentation images Spanish or DNI with documents to carry out contracts with different financial companies, among others.
Likewise, the investigators have located up to 30 fraudulently obtained mobile phones sold by one of the people arrested in a house of buying and selling.
The amount defrauded by the detainees amounts to just over 800,000 euros and to date there are some 400 victims throughout Spain.