Spanish police arrest six members of gang for selling nonexistent puppies Gang swindled victims out of €150,000 by posting fraudulent adverts for pets on secondhand shopping sites.
Spanish police investigating an online gang, which swindled prospective puppy-buyers out of more than €150,000 (£125,000) by duping them into paying for nonexistent dogs and fictitious vets’ bills, have arrested six people and frozen 14 bank accounts.
Officers from the Policía Nacional began looking into the gang – which was based in the Basque province of Biscay but operated across Spain – and discovered it was fraudulently advertising mobile phones as well as pets.
After analysing 72 bank accounts and poring over information gleaned from 25 phone lines, officers identified 100 victims of the fraud across Spain, and learned that they had been cheated out of more than €150,000.
Police then noticed that the gang was using the same shopping sites to offer the latest mobile phones, which, once again, never reached their buyers.
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