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| Twypper Operation | The Telematic Scams team of the Civil Guard in collaboration with the ROCA Team of the Civil Guard of the same town and the Civil Guard Post of Torre Pacheco (Murcia), dismantled a criminal group and arrested a Murcia neighbor as alleged Author of 18 crimes of fraud, in the exploitation of the Twypper operation. The aforementioned operation began as a result of a high number of complaints of fraud with a similar modus operandi in May 2.018, in the rural peri-urban area of ??the city of A Coruña. It consisted of locating advertisements with very specific characteristics through sales pages between individuals, that the advertiser was an elderly person, with little knowledge of the Internet, inhabitants of rural areas and with an interest in selling the advertised objects as soon as possible. Once the victim had been selected, they contacted her showing their interest in acquiring the product offered quickly, without haggling over the price, since according to what they were told they needed it for an urgent gift. To finalize the transaction, they asked the victim for the details of his bank card in order to make the payment of the sale directly in it, sometimes requesting the seller a photograph of the DNI to make sure that he was a natural person and thus avoid deception by the seller. With the data in their possession, they proceeded to open prepaid telephone accounts, with online accounts in entities with few physical branches and on Internet payment platforms that would allow cash withdrawals in commercial establishments, making these transfers of various amounts of money from victims' accounts. The Civil Guard investigated the facts for the total clarification of the same, the full identification of the authors and the compensation of the cheated amounts. As a result of the field work carried out and the detailed analysis of the information obtained in it, the Civil Guard achieved after an arduous investigation, given the complexity of the plot concocted by this group and the use of the real identities of the scammed to evade the action of the security forces, the identification of the three components of the criminal group. Clarifying with the same 18 crimes of fraud carried out in the towns of Curtis, Teixeiro, Oleiros, Arteixo, Betanzos, Coirós, Mabegondo, Mugardos, Laracha, Corcubión, Milladoiro, Ames, Noia Xinzo de Limia, Tamallancos Cambados and Arganda del Rey.

28 crimes of document falsification (for the contracting of online and telephone bank accounts with other people's identities) in the towns of Rianxo, Esplugues De Llobregat, Sant Quirze Del Valles (Bar, Barcelona, ??Castellón De La Plana, Villanueva De La Serena, Córdoba, Fuente Obejuna, Zubia, Outura,, Alicante, Huelva, Alcantarilla, Madrid, Arcos De Jalón, Armilla, Yuncos, Valls, Catarroja, Picasent, Mislata, Valencia, Zaragoza and Zamora. The Civil Guard proceeded to arrest this person as the alleged co-perpetrator of the enumerated crimes, money laundering and usurpation of marital status (for the use of real identities for the commission of crimes) and to identify the other two components of the group when they were found unaccounted for. The detainee, together with the actions carried out, was placed at the disposal of the Investigating Court No.

3 of Betanzos. Tips for preventing these types of scams on the Internet. Due to the normalization of the Internet when it comes to buying and selling products, scammers have made the network their workplace.

Internet users must be alert not to fall for their deceptions.

Thus, consumer associations and the Security Forces recommend users to be suspicious if there are a series of signs such as the following: Be suspicious if the platform to establish the payment has logos of the Civil Guard, the National Police or any other Security Corps.

Agents do not review common sales transactions that occur on the Internet. If possible, you must deliver the item you sell by hand (face to face). You must use official transport companies of the sale and purchase portal if you have one (guarantee the purchase) or, failing that, cash on delivery. Do not provide credit or debit card details under any circumstances. Make sure you have received the money, and do not accept retention of the money by trusted third parties "these can be supplanted" unless you are totally sure of using the payment method or gateways with which you usually work and of which you know the work methodology ( PayPal) Do not make direct payments to mobile phones, or with cash withdrawals (you will never know who you are making the payment to, and it is still a generic scammer) request a bank account to enter the purchase. Never provide personal and bank details.

It should also be remembered that, in an online payment, the bank transfer is not a secure method. Do not provide a copy of your ID in any case to buy items. When you agree to the sale, and especially if the seller or buyer quickly provides the DNI (it could be someone else's), request a telephone conversation (video call) with the seller or buyer and thus you will know if they are who they say they are.

Source: Ministerio del Interior