Agents of the National Police have arrested three women in Xàtiva (Valencia) for allegedly committing 57 scams with false sales of furniture online, for which they caused an estimated economic loss of more than 18,300 euros.
The investigations began when the agents learned that a woman had been insulted and defamed on a social network through the profile of a furniture sales company of which she was a manager, as reported by the National Police in a statement.
After the first inquiries, the agents located the person supposedly responsible for these demonstrations and found out that she had been scammed with the purchase of a mirror that she did not receive.
Likewise, the police began to investigate different website domains where, apparently, scams had occurred. The investigations led the agents to review complaints filed throughout the national territory related to victims who had been defrauded in the purchase of furniture, specifically on websites managed by three women.
The suspects, between 20 and 31 years old and of Spanish nationality, allegedly took advantage of the privacy of electronic commerce and the ease of creating a network of web pages. In this way, they were shown online with a “very elaborate” presentation to “generate trust” and showed high quality furniture at affordable prices.
On the other hand, women controlled the reviews, especially the negative ones, and created new ones when the latter accumulated too much. In addition, they used the CIF of various companies belonging to the furniture sector, as well as domiciliation in fictitious locations.
The three detained as alleged perpetrators of a continuing crime of fraud, with no police record, were released after their statements were taken, but not before being warned of the obligation to appear before the judicial authority when required to do so.
