Toulouse: the scammer cashes in stolen checks for €24,000
A 26-year-old woman has just been confused by the police. For two years, from 2019 to 2021, she fooled Internet users who thought they were making easy money.
For two years, a young woman fooled her world by promising her victims profits. She has just been confused by the Toulouse police. The scam was well done. Via an announcement on social networks, she promised those who entered her scheme to earn easy money.
All they had to do was give their bank details. From there, she deposited checks for large amounts in their accounts and promised a tempting percentage to her accomplices-victims. Quickly, as soon as the amount was credited to the bank account, the scammer made a transfer to an account she had created and then seized the money.
Five victims
A few days later, the bank realized that the credit checks were in fact stolen forms or came from closed accounts and asked the victims to reimburse the amounts wrongly collected. These people, who have never seen a euro of the promised percentage, find themselves at the head of important debts.
The police’s General Investigations Unit, handling the case, identified five victims between the ages of 25 and 30. Three in Toulouse, one in the Tarn as well as a company. The total amount of damage is €24,000. The scammer, a 26-year-old woman, already known to justice for similar facts, did not seek to deny the facts to the investigators. She will be tried in the coming weeks by the Toulouse Criminal Court.