The Civil Guard has solved a crime of fraud of 170,000 euros related to cryptocurrencies, and has identified three men and one woman, aged between 35 and 45 years as alleged perpetrators of the crime.
According to the Benemérita, the four identified would have allegedly deceived with false advertising a person with habitual residence in Lanzarote, to make different bank transfers as an investment in cryptocurrencies.
The Civil Guard became aware as a result of a complaint filed last March, where the complainant reported being the victim of a technological scam, in which he stated "having been interested in investing in cryptocurrencies, contacting an alleged broker who would be responsible for making his investment profitable, which at first was 170,000 euros".
Therefore, the victim proceeded to make several bank transfers during a period of three months, entering amounts of money ranging "between 3,000 euros and 57,000 euros", until reaching the total capital mentioned, being the injured person a person with high purchasing power.
Also, once the corresponding transfers were made in favor of the alleged broker in different bank accounts, "all communications ceased", the victim realizing at that moment that it was a fraud".
The Civil Guard carried out the appropriate police investigations and various steps to clarify the facts, including identifying all persons involved as the beneficiaries of the destination current accounts of the defrauded capital, noting that these accounts were opened in person. In addition, the Civil Guard clarifies that three of these people "are responsible for companies related to the cryptocurrency market".
Therefore, the proceedings were made available to the Duty Court of Arrecife.
False brokers
The Civil Guard warns that false brokers pretend to be specialists in Cryptocurrency investments and attract their victims through misleading advertising.
For a long time, a manager contacts the client by phone almost daily to achieve intimacy on a personal level, while making them see the alleged gains they are getting thanks to their first investment, but also to highlight what they could earn if they raised their funds. All this can be reflected from applications manipulated by the Cybercriminal, which are not real.
In this way they convince investors to make transfers, since they fully trust the business that their trusted 'brokers' raised.
At the moment in which the investor wishes to withdraw their benefits, problems begin with different excuses. Among them they "request to pay some taxes to get more transfers, or directly indicate that the market has changed and they have lost all their money".
After telling him that they have lost all their money, another Broker contacts the citizen, who tells him that he will help him recover what was lost with new investments, entering a spiral of losses until "burning" the account.
