A con artist in Murcia has been detained after he used a UK phone number to sell fraudulent cryptocurrencies
The arrest was made as part of Operation ‘Criptor’, an investigation by Spanish police in response to the complaints of the Totana resident that they had been the victim of a scam after they had made certain investments in cryptocurrencies with the help of an alleged financial advisor.
It seems that in the scam, the first contact was made with potential victims through a phone call from the United Kingdom, in which an alleged financial manager encouraged their target to invest in a well-known virtual currency, assuring them that, due to a recent drop in prices, it was a very good time to buy.
In this way, and with the promise that they would see substantial profits in no time, the fraudster managed to get his victim to transfer up to 36,000 euros to a digital wallet. When the promised profits didn’t immediately arrive, the con artist kept his victim on the line with excuses about fictitious problems derived from the payment of certain taxes and duties that prevented him from receiving his money.
The first investigations focused on following the digital trail of the money allegedly…
