Just the ID number of the renowned Colombian actress Yesenia Valencia was enough for them to impersonate her and damage her credit history.
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The Colombian actress Yesenia Valencia and her brother Andrés Valencia denounced that they were supplanted, indebted and reported in risk centers.
They were going to take out a loan and they had already been “advance”
«We have a company and we were going to get a credit card from the company; I am the legal representative, but they told me no, that my portfolio was punished, “explained the actress.
The answer took him by surprise because he did not understand, however, the same financial institution sends him the reports.
“I realized that I was punished by Avon, but not only that, I appeared in five or six other companies in which they had used my name to be a co-signer,” is the complaint.
She explained that she ended up co-signing “people who work with a catalog sales company,” added the actress.
Immediately, she began to contact said companies for which she was indicated.
“Only one company answered me, they sent me the audio where a person posing as me is heard and then they tell me that I must go to the Prosecutor’s Office and file a complaint,” said the actress.
For the “do not verify” scam, the victim is made to “flip”
Given the response that Yesenia Valencia received, she questioned how rigorous these companies are when it comes to receiving information from users because when it comes to responding, they put up many obstacles.
“A person pretends to be me, gives my ID number and gets credits, but when I tell them that it’s not me, I have to prove to them that it’s not me. So that’s where he feels unprotected, “said the actress.
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“The same thing happened with my brother”
In addition, she was not the only one in the family who was supplanted because they did the same to her brother Andrés Valencia.
“In my case they make a little more effort because they verified with a cell phone that was not mine and that was the filter they use to verify,” said the actress’s brother.
But the most terrifying thing about the case is that one of the companies for which he was impersonated only works with female staff.
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“One of these companies works only with women and on the form it appears that I am someone’s mother, but I still appear as a man,” said the actress’s brother.
In Colombia, scams have skyrocketed in different ways.
However, identity theft or theft of information through links is one of the most frequent.
The actress Yesenia Valencia and thousands of Colombians have had to get involved with complaints and even paying debts that are not theirs.
Of these scams that rarely manage to be discovered by the authorities.
