this National Police Detained for allegedly defrauding 40 people 240.000 Euros to a telephone operator through the use of fake credit cards that they buy and sell mobile phones.
detainees in operation Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Huelva and CadizThey used fake debit cards they obtained over the “deep web” to purchase mobile devices online from the phone company, which they then resold on sales platforms between individuals, the National Police reported.
Those responsible for the organization to get more benefits from the purchase of mobile phones started a fictitious company with linked accounts to trading platforms where they have generated sales of over two million euros in the last 12 months.
The detainees have arrived 1,256 different credit or debit cards to make nearly 200 purchases approximately 1,800 failed operations, along with fraudulent transactions against the same phone company.
Through this fraud, the telephone operator delivered 109 devices worth about 108,000 euros to members of the criminal network, Although the economic damage to the company is more than 240.000 Euro.
The investigation began nearly a year ago when the National Police confirmed the case. the existence of a hierarchical criminal group sharing duties.
Some members were responsible. purchase from fake credit cards and mobile devicesothers were responsible for recruiting people from their environment to take care of physically collecting terminals from the telephone company’s establishments.
Representatives were able to confirm that although the group’s activity was initially limited to the city of Madrid, they were expanding their activities to other areas as members’ personal data was found to be fraudulent or cards were revoked. points of Spain.
this The operation was completed with a search of a house in Madrid’s Villa de Vallecas district.In addition to 55 thousand euros in cash hidden among the furniture of the house, 55 mobile phones, tablets, laptops and game consoles were seized in the incident.
IT40 detainees were brought before the court for alleged perpetrators of terrorist crimes. fake, membership of a criminal organization, abuse of marital status – for the purpose of obtaining mobile devices by changing the identity of third parties – or tax fraud.