The Granada Civil Guard brought two men aged 20 and 26 to justice for the crime Serious fraud committed by the “son in distress” method When they discover that their bank accounts … He finished stealing 6,500 euros from a woman from Granada.
As detailed by the Armed Institute in a note, the alleged scammers contacted a woman from a town in Granada via WhatsApp, pretending to be her son. Through letters, they convinced her to do so He lost his mobile phone And from that moment on, they must communicate through this number.
Immediately after that, he received a phone call. A man with a foreign accent asked him not to hang up and informed him that his son had been kidnapped, demanding that he “A series of bank transfers to the accounts that were to be made for his release.” To put pressure on her, they told her: “If she wanted proof that the kidnapping was real, they could cut off her son’s arm and send it to her.”
Faced with these threats, the victim immediately went to the bank’s ATM and made several transfers in a total amount of 6,500 euros to the accounts that had been sent to him over the phone. After deposits were made, they called her again to inform her that they would release her son. When you return from the bank I met him and checked That the whole thing was a scam, so he filed a complaint with the Civil Guard.
Investigators from the Motril Civil Guard team took over the case and discovered that the money had ended up in different bank accounts of two people. Headquartered in the province of Valencia, Specifically in Bayporta and Cattaruga.
For this reason, they requested support from their counterparts in the Valencia leadership to locate the owners of the aforementioned accounts. Valencia Command Team agents located these two men and brought them to justice.