Through social networks, a young woman identified as Karen Tatiana She reported having been scammed, warning people not to fall into the trap she was a victim of.
As he recounted, It all started when he received a notification on his cell phone informing him of a deposit for his Nequi account.: “They wrote to me from another number. They told me that we deposited so much money and I asked for the receipt.“, he said.
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He said that when he requested this certificate, he noticed that he did not have information about the bank or the data of the issuer of the money, which generated an alert. The young woman, however, admitted that she was not at home at the time, so it took her a while to respond. and stated that “I was going to return the money“.
He also detailed that the scammers began to be more insistent, They claimed that the amount had not reached them.. “They started to spread, they treated me ‘super ugly’. I thought: ‘a decent person doesn’t do that kind of thing’“, he stressed.
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“I called Nequi, they told me no. I told them to keep the money there and the process must be done directly by the person calling Nequi and, there, we told them to return it, so they should accept the refund.“, he added.
According to him, he contacted the suspects and told them that they should follow the steps given by the application. However, in saying this, She was insulted and they called her “thief“. In addition, They threatened her and said they had important information such as her ID and issue number.. “They told me I would regret it“, he explained.
The whole truth, two months later
Karen Tatiana explained that, after two months of what happened, He found out the scammers’ true intentions. “I received a notification from RappiCredit, that I was in default on a loan that I had supposedly taken out. I owed double the money that I had received.“, said.
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Scam
Then, She realized that these people impersonated her and took out a loan in her name.. Upon approval, the requested amount was disbursed to your account.They wanted me to give it to them“, he said.
He also said, that the damage caused by these unscrupulous people is greater, because they damage your credit lifeif you don’t realize it in time: “I don’t understand if, suddenly, in Rappicredit, there are some infiltrated people and they make it granted“.
Credit withdrawn
For the young woman, the process in which the credit was obtained and the approval itself “was suspicious“. “I don’t understand how they get it only with a person’s ID number.“, he admitted.
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He even explained that there were no security filters to verify the identity. She said that she went through the whole process to file the complaint. and to state that, in fact, he had not gained anything from that company.
“They lowered my credit. They didn’t charge me interest, because I was proving that it had been a fraud process. If this happens to you, check your credit data, wait and don’t return the money yet.“, he noted.
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*With information from EL TIEMPO – LATEST NEWS
