Arequipa, Peru – Authorities of the Cuban regime in Sancti Spíritus identified and captured the scammers who supplanted the identity of the Taguasquense Yoel Rodríguez Ramírez and stole from their bank account about 230,000 Cuban pesos ($ 639 according to the informal rate).
A report from Radio Sancti Spíritus He states that the crime occurred on March 30 when an individual supplied the victim’s profile on the digital platform, who quickly made the complaint of what happened in the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) of the municipality.
The regime police coordinated a work team with officials of the Popular Savings Bank (BPA) of the territorial head, “who contributed valuable information for the rapid identification of the commissioner criminals of this fact.”
With the necessary documentation, the working group moved to the province of Holguín and in close collaboration with the Local Police they managed to identify and capture the authors of the incident, with the recovery of the entire scammed money, which was returned last Tuesday, April 9.
The authors of the crime are under criminal process And the investigations of the case are continued, says the state station.
“It has been a very intense week (…) is necessary to discover people from Taguasco involved in this type of fact, it has already been repeated, to see if the lesson is learned and no more people fall in the trap,” said Dr. Yipsy Cruz Santos, wife of the affected.
For his part, Lieutenant Danyer Tamayo Legrat led the investigations to capture the scammers and said it is a very complicated crime, difficult to clarify.
“It was a good cooperation with all the factors and with the evidences everything was coordinated and last Monday we left for Holguín and with the collaboration of the PNR they helped us to locate the alleged authors of this fact, until in the interrogations the localized citizen was confessed and the 230,000 pesos could be recovered,” says the officer.
The weaknesses of digital security systems in Cuba have transcended in recent years. It is enough, for example, a quick search in Facebook sale groups to realize the immense number of user publications in recent weeks to those who have cheated through a text message with an alleged transfer of balance. According to complaints in networks, both the modus operandis and the history urged by the scammers are quite similar.
In the group “Cuban Fighters” a recent victim of fraud identified as Adriana Pascual story that a person made a call with 99 after having received an SMS indicating the balance of 400 cup balance to his mobile line. “He said he was wrong because he had the son admitted and the wife needed the transfer and it happened to me twice in a row. They are pending and do not put the fool like me,” warned the woman.
Only from January to September 2023, the state telecommunications company of Cuba (ETECSA) detected more than 2,600 cybersecurity incidents – 70% of them in natural persons -, according to statements a Cubasíby Daniel Ramos Fernández, director of digital business of the Cuban monopoly.
