The Civil Guard of Fuerteventura, within the framework of Operation VEGOA, arrested a 29-year-old person last Monday, August 26, as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of fraud, having managed to transfer from a bank account of a person residing in Corralejo, the amount of 4967.50 euros through six transfers to his personal account.
The Civil Guard became aware through a citizen who appeared at the Main Post of Corralejo on July 25, to report the events. In it, he related that the bank transfers were carried out all on the same day, last July 3, 2024, when six bank transfers were made without his consent from the complainant's bank account to another account that he claimed not to know or have any relationship with its holder.
The Team @ of the Civil Guard of Puerto del Rosario, specialized in this type of criminal activities, initiated an investigation based on analyzing the trajectory and tracking the money that had been transferred, discovering that it was diverted to a bank account of a person residing on the island and with a police record for crimes against property, proceeding to locate and arrest him.
Currently, the Civil Guard continues to work in order to clarify these events in their entirety to find out how he illegally accessed the victim's account and the offender has made transfers, although for the moment there are no more victims related to this type of fraud on the island.
The Civil Guard advises creating secure passwords (use uppercase, lowercase, signs, etc.) to avoid this type of fraud, as well as never revealing personal data, not giving passwords, changing them periodically, and never writing down the passwords of these applications in documents.
