Cuban authorities arrested three citizens in the province of Sancti Spíritus accused of having defrauded various people with false sales of dollars.
According to the state media Escambraythe detainees were a married couple and a third person, who contacted their victims through Revolico classified ads.
These people offered to sell $100 bills to facilitate the transaction, but in reality, these ended up being counterfeit.
According to Escambrayafter contacting the potential victims, the scammers provided a telephone number with which they made their clients trust.
After agreeing on a date, the woman was the one who went to the place while she was disguised as a doctor.
There, the woman carried out the transaction, and in all cases, the victims did not realize that the tickets they had just bought were identical.
“Already there, he did his job so well that none of the customers stopped to look at the numbering of the American bills they had just bought. If they had done so, they would have noticed a macabre resemblance because they all coincided: ME42703207A, ”says the official note.
The authorities determined that the main scammers were the man and the woman of the marriage, while the third person involved was the one who got the counterfeit bills.
It should be noted that the purchase and sale of foreign currency in Cuba has been classified as the scam of the moment, which has been unleashed due to the deficiency of the Castro regime to provide dollars to state banks and exchange houses, for which reason Cubans they have to expose themselves to theft by trying to buy said currency on the black market.
Now, the three are detained and awaiting trial for the crime of counterfeiting coins.
It is necessary to remember that in the middle of last year, the Castro government authorized the sale of foreign currency in banks and exchange houses on the island, however, by not being able to provide these institutions with the number of foreign currency necessary to satisfy the people’s demand, opened the way to a series of scams and robberies related to the sale of dollars in Cuba.
