The Police arrest 25 young people for defrauding half a million euros from Amazon with the return of orders

The National Police has arrested 25 young people for defrauding more than half a million euros from Amazon through the purchase of mobile phones.

The network was supposedly led by six people, including a young model who came to present himself in the Mister Internacional Spain contest.

The scammers demanded the refund of the products saying that they were defective, but they did not return them and put them for sale on buying and selling pages.

through which they made purchases using more than 400 virtual cards, according to the Police.

The investigation, which culminated a month ago with the arrests, began in January of last year when agents from Coslada-San Fernando and Hortaleza found out that several young people had sent several empty envelopes as a result of a return of several orders instead of including the own product.

The package had the return label printed on it.

They also verified that each of the shipments corresponded to a different customer account and, once the investigations were advanced, they were able to verify that

The modus operandi consisted of creating customer accounts to which they subsequently associated a virtual payment card with which they made numerous purchases, mainly of high-end electronic products.

Once they received the order at a self-service ticket office, they contacted the company alleging that they had not received the product or that it had a defect, then requesting its return and payment reimbursement.

The scam ended when they went to mail delivery companies to deliver empty envelopes with the assigned return label instead of physically returning the purchased product itself.

The researchers found that many of the products were subsequently sold through different websites.

Once the agents managed to identify all those involved, and thanks to the continuous collaboration with the company's security department, a device was established that ended on June 8 with the arrest of 25 young people - between 20 and 35 years old - and the registration of four addresses.

In them they found numerous electronic effects, cash as well as documentation related to the criminal acts.

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