The bank superintendentAlejandro Fernández, said this Monday that the institution he heads can do very little to prevent people from being scammed by “witches” who give them money so that it “is multiplied.”
Through his Twitter account, the official said that, together with the Superintendency of the Stock Market, it will be proposed to develop a project that typifies and penalizes this type of activity and can act preventively, without having to wait for it to happen. the fraud.
Fernández said that at the moment the superintendence can only warn the population through the media, informing citizens that if they incur in these practices they will lose money.
“If you’re getting an ‘investment’ offer that’s too good to be true, you can write this in stone: It’s a SCAM,” Fernandez reiterated.
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Referring to schemes that promise to multiply investment, as happened with TelexFree, the superintendent referred to the activity that a man known as “Mantequilla” started in Sabana Grande de Boyá, in Monta Plata. He said the activity persists, despite warnings that it is an unsustainable pyramid scheme and that any ties to the banking system have been severed.
He explained that if the superintendence identifies that one of these “witches” channels the resources through the banking system, it can act.
“If we or our supervised entities identify that this type of activity is occurring, the entities will proceed to report these suspicious operations to the Financial Analysis Unit and to cancel or close those bank accounts”said.
