A man and two women have been arrested for alleged credit card fraud
of credits, in various events that took place in the capital of Corrientes. The subject worked as a lifeguard at a service station near the Terminal, and was the first link in the data theft that allowed him to commit the crime. Customers gave him their credit cards so they could charge them for fuel, and by oversight he cloned the card as well as personal data that allowed him to make purchases at several internet businesses. It is there that the two women who took care of this function appeared within the gang who allegedly committed scams for several thousand pesos. With the card account at their disposal, they made purchases from shops in other provinces and received them at an address that was not that of any of the three. In this way they made it even more difficult to locate them.
But at one point ambition played a trick on him and another purchase allowed the staff to follow the lead that led them to establish that it was not a single fact but that there was a common denominator, in all scammed people who had bought fuel in the company located about two blocks from the Terminal. The investigation was conducted by the Criminal Investigation Directorate together with the staff of the Police Headquarters who assured that they had arrested the two women, and the subject at an address in the area. The evidence gathered made it possible to identify them, through the main suspect, who is the service station employee who assisted all the victims.
Suspicions have arisen in the networks about the employees of the different gas station companies since scams with credit cards and other means of payment such as Mercado Pago are commonplace. In these circumstances, victims have to go through complicated procedures to return the stolen money, if they can.
In this case, none of the items purchased through the cards have been recovered, as they would have been resold.
