The most popular case, which advanced Levante-EMV on December 3, occurred in a shopping center in València.The employee of a bag and complement store, 21 years old and newly hired, ended up giving almost 2.500 euros to the scammers and hiring a river to open the safe box of the establishment with a radial, after falling into the trap of criminals.
Three weeks later, on December 14, it was another girl, this time in a Bingo de Gandia, who gave to the verbiage of the scammers, who managed to send them about 3.000 euros through a QR code obtained to enter money into a cryptocurrency account.The young woman was convinced, because she let her know the guy who spoke from the other side of the telephone line, that the bingo manager was aware of what was happening.In fact, as the previous victim - and all the others - assured him that he had the call with her and the other, the person responsible for Bingo.Hence the twilight of the double call.
In that case, given the type of establishment, with more effective than a bag store for obvious reasons, the girl did not have to touch the safe.With taking the money from the registrar, he gathered the amount that his interlocutor told him that the bingo owed and that he had to immediately enter the fine of fine penalty.
They watch and choose the victim
In principle, the agents specialized in cybercrime of the National Police, who have assumed both investigations, suspect that the scammer made the calls from Mexico, because it is the pattern that has been repeated for more than two years and throughout the Spanish geography.Of course, since the National Police publicly warned of a wave of this type of scamFrom hidden numbers, so the +52, prefix of Mexico, ceased to be visible.
To these two recent cases, at least four more are added, some occurred in March and others in August, of which they were dependentive victims, waitresses or receptionists - coincides that they are almost always very young women, for the workplace that scammersThey seek as a goal: of low qualification, for hours and very precarious - of clothing stores, supermarkets, ice cream shops and even a veterinary hospital.
It was the latter in which the organization - it is always the same - achieved the greatest booty: about 4.000 euros.This is the Veterinary Hospital of the Catholic University of Valencia, which suffered the assault on August 18.The girl who was at that time at the hospital reception, and whose recent hiring had been announced on social networks - where they extract the necessary data to gain the victim's confidence - came to hire a locksmith with thermal spear to openthe safe and be able to face the "very urgent payment" of the debt that made her believe her interlocutor that only she could solve.
In fact, that action came to generate some restlessness among customers, given the heating, dust and smoke that generated and that the activity in the clinic did not stop while the operator literally burst the safe.
In all cases, the scammer, who has previously collected information about the victim to give him the appearance of closeness and veracity, calls the landline, but immediately convinces the victim that he facilitates the number of his mobile with the excuse that he does notListen well and the argument that, in this way, leave the fixed one so that the person in charge or the person in charge have that free line to contact their subordinated.
Money is atomized in seconds
Before that, they have already made him believe that he must gather the money as soon as possible to pay a debt without which he will not receive the urgent replacement merchandise of the establishment - or drugs, in the case of the veterinarian - or forAvoid high fine to it or business.And they have convinced her that she is the only solution at that time.
Once the employees have the money - he also between 600 and those almost 4.000— They tell him how to get it: he must go to one of the few Cryptocurrencies of València - or Gandia -, open an account to enter the money, receive the QR code, connect with him to the recipient account and enter the money.From there, already turned into virtual, it is atomized in dozens of sub -accounts and simply goodbye.There is no way to follow the trail.
