Inma Lidón Valencia
Valencia
Updated Tuesday, February 6, 2024-14:15
35,000 euros to pay the necessary taxes with which to release an inheritance of three million euros. That is the formula with which
a woman detained by the National Police in
Benidorm
scammed her boyfriend
. It was not the first time she had done it and she had the mechanism very clear.
The couple met in early 2023 through
and what started as a friendship ended in a relationship. That's when the alleged scammer started asking her boyfriend for money. She was going to collect a million-dollar inheritance that had been bequeathed to her by a deceased relative in the
United States
, but she first needed to pay taxes and fees. She began by asking him for 28,000 euros, which the man withdrew in cash from her accounts to deliver to her by hand.
It was not enough and he continued to demand 7,000 euros more for fees that he did not have, but the boyfriend became suspicious when, despite having given him those amounts, he again demanded 13,000 euros a few weeks later. He perceived the scam and reported it to the police station.
The woman was located and arrested in Benidorm by the National Police, who discovered that she had committed another crime of fraud in the same way in
El Ejido (Almería)
, when she also asked the man she was caring for for 40,000 euros to collect an inheritance.
The Police have asked the judge to block the accounts to try to recover part of this stolen money.
Scam as the origin of the murders in Colmenar
This type of love scam has become common, in fact it may be at the origin of the death of the three brothers in Colmenar Viejo, murdered by a man from whom they had asked for large amounts of money that was not returned.
Part of that money was sent by the two sisters to two supposed American soldiers that they had met on a social network and with whom they had started a romantic relationship. They asked for the income so they could collect a million-dollar inheritance.