Justice sentenced 19 people to integrate a gang that offered fake unsecured loans y scammed people by selling electronics through social networks, the Ministry of the Interior reported in a statement.
According to the portfolio, those involved were part of a criminal organization made up of “relatives among themselves or friends”that with its scams they raised $5,821,000and turned abroad 473,693 pesos and 2,740 dollarsmost to Colombia.
Los nine men and ten women They were arrested in different parts of the country. (Montevideo, Maldonado, Colonia, San José, Tacuarembó and Canelones) and were convicted as co-authors of “a crime of association to commit a crime with concurrence outside of reiteration with a continued crime of fraud”all with the penalty of “freedom on trial” for periods ranging from six at 12 months.
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The General Directorate for the Fight Against Organized Crime, Interpol and the Young Prosecutor’s Office began an investigation after receiving “Almost a hundred fraud complaints filed between December 2020 and June 2022” from different parts of Uruguay, and with the same “modus operandi”.
The gang’s operations were divided into two actions: firstly, loans were offered that did not require collateraland that they pointed “to people who cannot access other loans because they have a history of bad payers”, detailed the ministry. This operation was looking for sellers with a “important display of publicity”, which included the promotion of False “company logos, business address, contact telephone numbers”.
When victims contacted the criminal organization, the scammers “They asked them for personal information, a photo of their identity document, salary receipts, among other documentation” pretending that they would begin to manage the loan.
Then those involved sent a contract letterhead and with the logo of the false financial companyand they asked for a “fingerprint or signature”. When the users resent the already signed document, the organization asked them “draw a certain sum of money to cover the administrative expenses of management, stamps and to solve the authorization of the clearing”with the promise that they would repay the money when they got the loan.
After the first spin the scammers announced their victims new management problems that implied new money transfers, maneuver that they repeated until people realized the scam and reported it to the authorities. “In numerous cases, the victims came to pay more than 25,000 pesos,” They reported from Interior.
Fake sale of electronic items
On the other hand, the same group also defrauded people through the networks selling Electronic products (appliances, cell phones and other items), “at a lower cost than the market”, detailed the ministry.
When the users made the purchase, the members of the criminal association They asked them to wire the money for the item to then send the product, but when the payment was made those involved They blocked users and didn’t send them anything.
2023-05-22 18:07:36
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