The Civil Guard has clarified, in Moraira, 122 bank scam crimes worth about 125.000 euros, thus ending the investigation opened after the arrest of two people of British nationality, last June of 2016 in the town of Benitachell.
One of the detainees was a Briton of 29 years for being the alleged perpetrator of two crimes of bank fraud, made by payments with duplicate credit cards, searching and capturing for the same crimes another man, also British 39 years He lived with the detainee.
During the search of the house, the Civil Guard discovered a marijuana crop that had almost fifty plants, and a vehicle with counterfeit license plates that had been stolen in the United Kingdom. They also found various electronic items purchased online, with credit cards, including a computer that was being analyzed in the framework of the investigation.
The detainee was placed at the disposal of the judicial authority, who ordered his release awaiting trial, and it is now that he has completed the investigation of the content of the laptop, which was in the hands of the British.
During the analysis of the computer, the agents found a small hidden file that was a spreadsheet in which they found the complete data of over 14.000 credit cards from around the world. The bank cards, belonging to national and international entities, had all the information related to them: personal data of the holders (identification document, telephone, mail, address, etc ...), expiration date and verification number of the card (CVC) that is necessary to make purchases online and by phone.
Moraira Station agents collated, one by one, each holder, more than 14.000 people, with the complaints filed throughout the national territory in the search for affected by the scams.
At the same time they contacted the national banking entities, to inform them of the owners whose personal information and their cards had been compromised. In this way, they have managed to prevent those users, who have been able to establish the appropriate measures to secure their accounts.
After collecting all the information and receiving a copy of all the proceedings carried out by the security forces and bodies throughout the national territory, they have been able to verify a total of 122 scam cases, increasing the value of the fraudulent purchases made to more than 125.000 euros, all of them through the internet and well-known online stores.
Although the alleged author made the purchases giving preference to people from the list with residence in the towns of Moraira, Jávea and Calpe, given the proximity to their place of residence, it has also been found that there are affected in Valencia, Murcia, Malaga, Almeria , Castellón and the Balearic Islands. The criminal acts started at 2011 and would have lasted until the beginning of this year.
The alleged perpetrator of the scams, this British citizen of 29 years, is missing, so it has been decreed an arrest warrant by the court that understands the case.
