This National Police stoped Alicante Two young people, aged 25 and 28, allegedly as perpetrators four scams To different victims from different points of the Spanish geography, whose bank accounts were charged with fraud worth 1000 TL. about 4,000 euros. Detainees seize state-of-the-art products, alcohol and tobacco shops in Albacetewhere they pay with the data of the defrauded cards.
The investigation began after four people complained about fraudulent charges in their bank accounts. substantial amount of money has been spent. Same day purchases from stores in Albacete. An affected person reported making a fraudulent purchase of €917.99 at a tech store; second, a purchase of 1,288 Euros from the same store; a third complainant found that he had purchased alcoholic beverages worth €1,184 at a supermarket in this city, and the last one had purchased tobacco worth €604.80 at a tobacconist’s shop in this city.
Albacete investigators began conducting investigations in the case of two youths, aged 25 and 28, living in Alicante, which led to the full identification of the perpetrators of these scams. with multiple fraud convictions, He is already one of those who were identified and arrested for similar incidents in Albacete last year.
Arrest
Two alleged fraudsters were arrested from Alicante last week after being identified. According to the police, it belonged to one of the detainees. Organized gangs operating in Spain and it acts in two clearly differentiated stages. In the first place, they capture the information of the bank card holder with “phishing” techniques. To obtain this information, they take advantage of security vulnerabilities in banks, businesses, or the carelessness of customers themselves, by sending messages that appear to come from their bank or another business, inviting them to click on a link. it will actually give the criminals access to all the data on your computer or phone terminal.
They come into play in the second stage. “mules”, Cards or accounts owned by banks are used by people who have the information of their victims’ cards connected to their mobile phones and who make all kinds of shopping until the balance or limit is exhausted by taking advantage of the fact that some businesses do not ask for identity cards when making payments by mobile phone. They often move to cities close to their point of residence to complicate their identification.
Advice to traders and citizens
Police advise employees of commercial enterprises to: Call 091 and notify the police In the case of unknown customers, try to make high-value payments via mobile phones. Be suspicious if customers make a quick purchase, Those who buy mostly cutting-edge, alcohol or tobacco products without looking at prices, comparing products and.
avoid being phishing victims Citizens are advised to take advantage of antivirus services, to take a close look at the e-mail addresses from which messages from their banks come from, not to click on unknown SMS or links, and not to give passwords for any reason. In any case, it is appropriate to limit the purchases you make with your card and to activate the activity notifications of our bank accounts. This way, as soon as we receive the notification of the first fraudulent payment, all alerts will be activated to prevent further payments with our cards.