The National Police arrested a man in Huesca under 16 years old who is accused of an alleged crime of scam and money laundering for having made available to a criminal organization his grandmother’s checking account to receive different amounts of money from bank scams.
The young man was contacted through the social network Tik Tok, where they asked for bank accounts to make money transfers in exchange for part of the loot transferred. This boy contributed to his grandmother’s bank account, to which They transferred 3,980 euros. The money that investigators were able to discover came from a bank scam reported in Guadalajara.
The victim of the Castilian city-La Mancha received a text message impersonate the bank they were in access a link to carry out alleged checks and, after that, they transferred the said sum of money to the account provided by the detained minor, who then transferred part of the said sum to another account provided by the criminal organization, while the rest of the money was used to buy a cell phone.
The performance of this detained minor is known in police jargon as acting as “mule”this is why he was arrested as responsible for the crime of fraud and money laundering.
This criminal methodology is called ‘vishing’ and consists of people pretending to be financial entities and, using social engineering and other telephone spoofing strategies, they manage to deceive the customers of these financial institutions, getting them to access their online banking, where they carry out the operations that these so-called employees tell them, so that later other people collect the monetary benefits and transfer them to other accounts, or transform them into crypto assets, until they reach the highest levels of the criminal organization.
The National Police warns that carrying out these criminal activities with criminal organizations, in addition to the risk of committing acts that involve criminal liability, This also represents a risk for the “mules”, since any failure to comply with what is “agreed” can result in a vengeful action and exemplary, on the part of these criminal organizations. The Huesca Provincial Judicial Police Brigade is continuing this investigation to determine those responsible for this scam.
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