A repeat thief found the best alibi to sow chaos in several jewelry stores in our country. A mode of operation simple, but at the same time risky, based on impersonate a player from the Spanish National Team and thus gain the trust of his victims.
The ‘footballer’, who, presumably, I played in a Second Division teamhas been identified by the Vigo National Police as alleged perpetrator of several crimes of fraud and usurpation with the aim of stealing jewelry. They have not yet proceeded to arrest him. The events happened last May. The owner of a central jewelry store in Vigo filed a complaint at a police station in the Galician city after being victim of a scam valued at 20,000 euros.
payments that never came
The complainant declared that a person, who identified himself as a footballer from the lower categories of ‘La Rojita’, assured him that I was going to pay for the jewelry through a bank transfer that, supposedly, he was going to carry out from the application that he had on his mobile, and that days later, he would send him the receipt for the movement. The jeweler, with his good faith, delivered the jewels.
“He assured that he would make the payment by means of a transfer from the application from the bank application that he had on his mobile and that he would send him a copy of it days later,” the complaint states. The days passed, and the jeweler witnessed how the promised money never reached his bank account. A fact that came into the hands of the National Police, who has been in charge of identifying this person. He has also used the same mode of operation in other jewelry stores throughout our country. Even, used other identities to commit said scam.
“I am a soccer fan and I know the names of the First and Second Division soccer players. On top of the National Team there are players from big teams, but who are in the Second Division none of them go to the National Team, at most to the Under-21 or Under-20. As a good scammer they are very good at theirs. They go through stores until they find the person they are cheating on,” he says. Antonio Peninpresident of the jewelers of Pontevedra, to And now Sonsoles.
