A woman was arrested this Tuesday in Benidorm for defrauding her partner of 35,000 euros with the excuse of collecting an inheritance of more than three million. According to the National Police, the woman was asking the man for thousands of euros in cash, until he became suspicious and reported the situation.
It all started in January of last year, when the victim, a man living in the Alicante city, met a woman through the Facebook platform. Their relationship began as a friendship, but after two months they met in person and ended up as a romantic couple.
After starting the relationship, the perpetrator told her partner that she needed 28,000 euros to be able to pay tax expenses in the United States. The reason she gave him is that she was at the expense of collecting an inheritance from a relative that amounted to 3,000,000 euros. However, the woman informed him that she did not have said financial amount at that time and she asked the man to lend her the money.
It was from then on that the victim began to make countless bank transactions to withdraw the money in cash and give it to his partner. Once the author obtained it, she again demanded an amount of 7,000 euros in cash, to cover the extra fees management.
Until that moment, the victim had accepted her partner’s requests, since she completely trusted her. But when a few weeks after the last transfer the woman asked him again for 13,000 euros, with the same arguments, the man became suspicious.
It was then that the victim filed a complaint at the police station for fraud against her partner. Quickly, investigators began to collect necessary data and evidence, resulting in the woman’s arrest. Likewise, they asked the Court to block the detainee’s bank accounts with the aim of recovering the swindled money. Once the police proceedings were completed, the alleged author has been placed at the disposal of the Benidorm Guard Court.
During the investigation phase, members of Police Group VI discovered that the perpetrator had already committed other fraud crimes using the same method. In 2020, she managed to get up to 40,000 euros in cash from a man for whom she was a caregiver in the city of El Ejido (Almería).
