Overview
- Investigators in Pontevedra province are questioning two men and a woman from Tui and A Guarda over a Cuntis neighbor’s losses of €7,000, with filings sent to the Caldas de Reis court.
- In the Toledo case reported this week, a resident joined a WhatsApp investment group from a social‑media ad, installed a spoof app, and then made nine transfers worth about €40,000.
- Guardia Civil says it identified a French national living in Girona as the suspected author and has issued European investigation orders to Romania, Luxembourg, Italy and Denmark, plus a judicial request to Ireland to trace the funds.
- Detectives say the schemes used fake investment “experts,” sham brands such as Ediciones Z, and grooming in messaging groups to build trust and move money.
- The cyber unit reports more than 40,000 complaints in under a year and says most computer crimes it sees are frauds, with many smaller cases never reported and some victims saddled with unauthorized loans.