SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
National Police agents have arrested a 20-year-old man in La Laguna, with no police record, as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of fraud worth 8,500 euros committed through telematic means.
The investigation on the island began after the agents received a communication from the National Police in Burgos.
There, a citizen denounced having been the victim of an online scam, having ordered a transfer of 8,500 euros not authorized by him, from his account to another located in the Canary archipelago.
The ‘modus operandi’ used was known as ‘smishing’ by which the victim receives an SMS on his mobile phone, supposedly from his bank, causing him to carry out a procedure.
Through the link in the message itself, you access a website that pretends to be from the bank and there you provide your credentials, which are stolen and used.
The inquiries carried out by the national police in Tenerife made it possible to identify the owner of the account receiving the money and even learn that, half an hour after the crime, a refund of 2,000 euros had been made at an ATM in La Laguna.
The agents, days after the computer scam, proceeded to arrest the alleged perpetrator of the crime and after being heard in a statement at the police station, he was turned over to the competent judicial authority.
The actions were carried out by national police officers from the Local Police Station of La Laguna.
