Scams are a way that many organizations unfortunately have to get money from many people. These crimes are prosecuted by the responsible bodies around the world to try to make them disappear.
In our country, two people who were part of an entity that were in charge of deceiving people through the Bizum application have been arrested. This application saves all our bank details and is used to make money transfers at the moment, saving a lot of time.
Those affected have been a Spanish man and woman living in La Rioja, who were called by the scammers who made them think they were Social Security workers.
Those responsible, detained
The Civil Guard has been the body in charge of carrying out this operation to stop this scam network. They detected how there was a flow of information between the two affected people and this group, so once they detected that it was a scam they launched a device that was responsible for searching, finding and capturing these people.
In addition, it was discovered that it was not the first time that this group organized scams of this type, since in other provinces of our country up to more than five scams were carried out.
The way these scammers carried out their frauds was as follows: those affected received a call from a person posing as a Social Security worker and in this phone call the scammer gave a large number of intimate documents that they made that the person receiving the call thought it was a real call.
A plan measured to the millimeter
Their way of obtaining this private information that was going to be used while the deception was being carried out was very simple: they obtained all the data from the profiles of the different social networks that the affected person had.
The false worker told the victim that he was going to receive a payment in his favor and that this entire operation was going to be processed through the leading application to make payments in our country, Bizum.
Once this happened, the scammed person received a notice in which he was told that he should approve the passage of the money, but when it was accepted there was no going back, since in truth the affected person was suffering a debt that could arrive to reach figures in excess of 500 euros.
You have to be careful with this type of deception, since this type of scam network knows very well what they are doing. What is certain is that no banking operation of these characteristics would be carried out through Bizum, so you have to take this into account and be careful.
