ASdTorrevieja Information - tourist guide: Citizen of Torrevieja arrested for Internet Fraud

Citizen of Torrevieja arrested for Internet Fraud
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A. Michael on 17 February, 2010 03:09:00

The man under arrest had made five bank transfers via Internet amounting to
22,400 €. The man was arrested at the bank’s branch when he was trying to
withdraw the money in cash.

The Guardia Civil arrested a man in Torrevieja as the alleged perpetrator of a
bank fraud via Internet known as “phising”.
The Guardia Civil became aware possibly fraudulent transfers were being made to
three bank accounts belonging to the same person in two different banks.
After the corresponding investigations, it was found out that the holders of the
accounts of origin had not made neither authorized the mentioned operations.
Three of those transfers, amounting to 16,770€, had already been collected by
their addressee, but there were still two of them, amounting to 5,700€, which
were still deposited into the alleged perpetrator’s account.
Under these events, the Guardia Civil started a surveillance operation which
ended up last week with the arrest of a Brazilian 43 year-old man who was trying
to collect the last deposits in cash.