§ One of the arrested took advantage of his work in a smartphone repair shop to, after violating the security codes, access the sensitive data of the terminals that the victims took to repair and, in this way, have access to email, the photo gallery and all the passwords of your applications, including those of electronic banking
§ With the information obtained through this unauthorized intrusion, and after falsifying the identity documents and duplicating the SIM card of the telephone of those affected, they emptied current accounts and took out instant bank credits in just one hour, converting the money obtained into cryptocurrencies to launder it
§ The researchers have credited the high economic damage caused to the victims, highlighting that the amount of fraud carried out on only seven of them amounts to more than 450,000 euros
§ The agents carried out 16 home searches -11 of them in the Community of Madrid and 5 in Valencia- where they found falsified IDs of potential victims already prepared to carry out future scams, in addition to blocking 75 bank accounts
