The Spanish police has smashed a deadly "Nigerian letter" scam
gang who fleeced 34 victims out of €5 million in cash. The 31 members of
the gang who were arrested had used emails, letters and social media to
draw people in and steal their money.
Their victims came from the US citizen, Britain, Japan, Slovenia,
Russia, Poland, Libya, Canada, Italy, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Saudi
Arabia, Germany, Turkey, Brazil and China, and have been identified.
Also, the police discovered about more than 1,500 letters written and
waiting to be sent to potential victims.
Speaking about the incident, a spokesman for Policia Nacional said: "The use of previous information obtained from possible frauds allowed them to give a different treatment to each victim.
"[They] adapted the "story" they used to deceive them, which
included prizes in the Spanish lottery of those who had turned out to be
beneficiaries, profitable business or any other operation that
supposedly would report to the injured millionaires profits.
"Once the victim was contacted by the members of the
organisation in Spain, they began to ask him to make various payments in
various concepts, such as customs fees, payment of attorneys' fees and
notaries or taxes," the spokesman continued.
"When they had the victim hooked for having made several of
these payments, they proposed to travel to Spain to see their money in
person.
"In this way they reinforced the conviction of their
participation in a profitable business, for which it was worthwhile to
pay the important amounts in advance of which they were paying.
"The urgency with which they performed all the staging of the scams was no accident.
"They did so because the deceived, all foreigners, usually arrived tired off the flights and did not pay the same attention."
The suspects will be prosecuted according to the law.
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