The Civil Guard has identified eight people as alleged perpetrators of a fraud against a resident of Lanzarote, which caused her a loss of 46,342 euros. The fraud was carried out through the Pishing method, with which cybercriminals manage to impersonate the victim to access online banking.
The complaint was filed at the Civil Guard post in Tías, where the victim reported that several transfers had been made from her account to others located both in Spain and abroad, reaching a total sum of more than 36,000 euros. In addition, they had taken out two personal loans in her name worth 10,000 euros.
Therefore, the members of Team @ of Lanzarote, within the tasks entrusted in the fight against internet fraud, carried out the appropriate police investigations, which allowed the identification of the perpetrators of the act. According to the Civil Guard, they are aged between 22 and 74 years old, with addresses in different parts of the Spanish geography, France, Germany and Holland. In addition, two of them have police records for similar crimes.
From the Civil Guard they explain that among the steps taken, a follow-up of the withdrawn capital was carried out, which had as its final destination the bank accounts of the identified people, "this type of event being one of the most common scams carried out by cybercriminals".
"In this type of attack, cybercriminals send SMS and/or emails to their victims posing as their bank, with the excuse of some management or problem to solve, getting the victim to open the URL address of the link they provide, accessing a website that simulates being that of their bank, at which point the victim enters their credentials to access it and the cybercriminal seizes them," they say.
