10/26/2020 2:37 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 10/26/2020 2:37 PM
Dozens of people went this Monday to the house of an accused of being part of
a gang of scammers
in the Buenos Aires town of Merlo and there were moments of tension with the Police.
The affected residents started
burning tires and threw stones
at the home of an alleged scam artist who, they reported, is part of an organization that
pretended to have a dealership
and sold high-end units through social networks, but whose operation was actually to obtain Advances without delivering the vehicles.
In the presence of the police, one of the protesters denounced that the scammers were inside the house, located in Constitución at 700. "That the police
do not mess with us
who are the victims. , expressed in dialogue with TN.
The investigation began with the complaint of one of those affected to Prosecutor 3 of Morón, Valeria Courtade, who reported one of the around
40 detected scams
, which would have been carried out through the Facebook social network from the alleged concessionaire.
The criminal organization carried out the maneuvers from a house on 720 Constitution Street in Merlo Centro, in the west of Greater Buenos Aires, where they captured the victims and obtained signs of 20,000 to 40,000 pesos to start the alleged purchase that never materialized.
Sources told Télam that the gang, which would be made up of about ten people, would
collect several high-end cars
and put them on the premises as a display of a fake sale for the victims to see and believe that the transaction could be made with many facilities.
They always used the names of large automakers to have weight in their maneuvers and thus
deceive the buyer
and easily make the deposit of money for the acquisition of cars, which ultimately would not happen.
The type of scams was that the ghost company seduced future buyers through Facebook and Mercado Libre, where they exhibited cars of different models and brands with immediate delivery after an advance of money and a balance of up to 36 installments, but the delivery of the vehicle was never made. it was "sold" to various people.
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