One arrested in Benidorm for “Son in Difficulty” scam

A person who participated in a scam network called “Son in Trouble” was arrested in Benidorm.

One of the participants in the Benidorm call has been taken into custody by police.
The suspect is in charge of a call centre in the tourist city where a fraud with fictitious data was carried out once the terminal was activated. This kind of fraud involves con artists posing as the victim’s son, reaching out to her through text messages or instant messaging apps, and making an urgent demand for money.

Agents of the National Police assigned to the Badajoz, Madrid, and Benidorm police stations conducted the operation, and two individuals were taken into custody on suspicion of committing the crimes of fraud, money laundering, document forgery, and usurpation of marital status.

The investigation started after a 64-year-old woman in Badajoz filed a complaint alleging that she had been duped by individuals posing as her daughter, who persuaded him that he had issues with his cell phone and that he urgently needed me to send 4,000 euros, to which I consented.

When they later requested a fresh payment of 4,985 euros, she became suspicious and realised it was a scam.

Using the phone numbers and bank account information of the transaction’s beneficiary, agents from the Brigade provincial of Badajoz’s technological crimes group conducted an investigation into this crime.

The receiving account’s owner was clearly recognised by the agents

A man based in Madrid was the source of the stolen funds, so they forwarded this information to the Madrid-Tetuán Police Station, where they arrested him on charges of money laundering and fraud.

They also confirmed that the owner of the phone used to send messages to the victim, posing as the victim’s daughter, was a Cordoba man who had previously complained about usurping his civil status, making him another scammer victim.

The phone had been registered and activated using a fictitious identity, identifying the point of sale at a Benidorm call centre that was operated by a man with a comparable criminal history. Using the information supplied, the Benidorm Police Station agents detained him for falsifying documents.

With increasingly sophisticated techniques for delivering bulk mails, this kind of scam is growing in popularity. In light of this, the National Police will provide an update today regarding another major operation in which a major organisation has collapsed.
He estimates that he has a call centre to carry out this kind of scam.
that the criminal organisation, which functioned around the clock, might have caused an economic loss of over 2,000,000 euros to over 2,000 victims, which illustrates the volume of operations they conducted.

Both the hitman and the son in trouble scams were areas of expertise for the organisation. According to the General Directorate of Police, it is a form of fraud where the con artists pretend to be contract killers and threaten their victims with violence while requesting money to prevent harm or death.