The National Police has arrested in Madrid a taxi driver, of Spanish nationality and 43 years, accused of cheating around 26,000 euros to about 40 customers giving the change to their credit cards. The professional kept the customers' cards after returning others at the time of charging them, without the victims noticing the change.
The investigation began in mid-July after a person denounced several bank movements that he had not made , according to the National Police.
When he went to his bank to find out what had happened, he realized that the card he had was not his own but was in the name of another person.
The arrested man was driving a taxi in which he kept a multitude of cards from different banks. To get closer to the customer and see the numbers of the key that he dialed, the detainee simulated that the dataphone did not work well due to an alleged poor coverage and for this he inserted the SIM card backwards so that he never had a connection and approached his victim.
The agents verified that the detainee had been committing this scam since April and that at least 40 people were affected.
When the Police contacted the injured parties, many of them had not realized that they had been victims of this scam until they observed their bank accounts and found that they had a card in their wallet in the name of another person.
The investigation remains open since there could be more victims, according to the Police.
The detainee has no background and is charged with crimes of fraud and theft. He had two dataphones to commit the scam.
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