A Montijo neighbor denounces a scam when buying a truck engine online

The Civil Guard investigates the cyber scams suffered by residents of the Badajoz towns of Montijo and Azuaga, two unrelated actions, carried out using techniques of deception and usurpation of marital status, and for which the scammers managed to falsify public documents to obtain financial credits and issuance of invoices.

Since the end of last year, the Civil Guard has been investigating the two alleged cyber scams, unrelated to each other, suffered by residents of the Badajoz municipalities of Montijo and Azuaga, who told the agents that through deception and usurpation of civil status, the alleged authors of the criminal action they would have swindled about 6,500 euros.

Given the reported events, the Badajoz Civil Guard Command Team has carried out an investigation with which it has managed to find out in the first of the cases, as a neighbor of Valdivia (Badajoz), after obtaining the personal data and banks of La Montijana, would have usurped her marital status, obtaining, without her consent, the granting of a financial loan, with which she would have made purchases through the Internet and cash withdrawals with charges to the victim’s account.

In the second action, a resident of Azuaga reported having suffered a scam after acquiring a truck engine on web pages for buying and selling automotive items, making the payment by bank transfer after confirming the invoice that was issued via WhatsApp. by the supposed seller, without having received the product.

With the efforts carried out by the agents, two residents of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria could be implicated in the scam, one of them with a history of similar events, as reported this Friday by the Badajoz Civil Guard Command in a note of press.

The three responsible for both criminal actions have been instructed as investigated for crimes of usurpation of civil status, document falsification and fraud, and have been handed over to the Investigating Courts of Montijo and Llerena respectively.

Recommendations of the Civil Guard

To avoid this type of scam, the Civil Guard recommends not offering your bank details over the network, not installing applications dedicated to file sharing if you do not fully know how they work, not opening messages or attachments from unknown senders, not responding to messages that request your personal information, do not click on links that appear in pop-up windows that have not been requested, or provide your email address or personal information to suspicious web pages that request it.