There are three people arrested in Sancti Spíritus for selling counterfeit dollars, but the report published this Tuesday in the official press in which the news was reported suggests that there may be more involved in the scam.
According to Escambray, The detainees earned around 160,000 pesos in each of the operations, for which they used fraudulent $100 bills. The provincial newspaper also says that each affected person gave between 800 and 1,500 of these dollars at the exchange rate in the informal market (between 160 and 170 pesos per dollar), which means that for each transaction the benefits ranged between 128,000 and 255,000. pesos.
Those affected, the newspaper continues, are four, although they ask readers for help to find other possible victims.
The scammers, accused of the crime of counterfeiting coins, advertised as a marriage through the Revolico classifieds portal and, once the potential victim had been contacted, they took her to a fake Facebook profile.
The scammers, accused of the crime of counterfeiting coins, announced themselves as a marriage through the Revolico classifieds portal.
Messenger and a phone number, he says Escambray, They served to establish “a climate of greater confidence”. For transactions, the woman used to go to the homes of whom she required the purchase. “He always tried to look friendly. Faithful to the most sporty of styles and to mask his identity, he used glasses and a backpack; but the indisputable coup de grace was delivered by the doctor’s gown with which he attended these meetings,” the provincial newspaper reports. which does not specify the presumption of innocence that must apply to all defendants. “He arrived punctual as a Swiss clock; sometimes, in a motorcycle and others, in a rented car. Already in the place, he did his job so well that none of the ‘clients’ stopped to observe the numbering of the American tickets that they had just bought “. The serial number was the same in all cases: ME42703207A.
Escambray The story continues, with a source at the Headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Body of the Ministry of the Interior: “Once the cat was taken to the water, the accused returned home to calmly telephone the supplier of the counterfeit bills. He then handed her over between 20,000 and 50,000 pesos, depending on the amount sold, as a reward for getting away with such a ruse.”
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