The Leonese Jordi A.F., Lupín, considered the biggest cyber-fraudster in the history of Spain, has been sentenced to one year in prison in San Sebastián for a scam perpetrated against a Gipuzkoan, whose personal data he found out through the fraudulent purchase and sale of a video game console through from Internet.
Born in Ponferrada (León), 27 years old, Lupín is considered the biggest cyber scammer in our country and has already been convicted in at least two of the multiple procedures followed against him.
It is estimated that he would have made profits of close to 300,000 euros per month with online scams, copying store websites and using platforms for his victims to buy products that they never received.
According to the sentence that now condemns him in Donostia, the scam committed against a Gipuzkoan citizen dates back to October 2017, when the accused placed an advertisement on a website offering a PS4 console for 289 euros.
The judicial resolution, to which EFE has had access, details that shortly afterwards the victim contacted the defendant and provided him with her identification card number, her debit card number and her home address, after which the The scammer assured him that the product would arrive at his house “in a few days”, even though he knew that “this was not true” because he knew “from the beginning that he was not going to send him the PS4.”
“In this way,” the document adds, “once these data were obtained, the accused used the DNI and the numbering and security codes of the card without their consent” to make different purchases at a service station in Lugo for a total amount of 760.49 euros.
The judicial resolution considers that these facts constitute a continuing crime of fraud for which it imposes one year in prison, although the sentence is not final since it can be appealed before the Court of Gipuzkoa.
Lupín was arrested in January 2022 in a nightclub in Madrid, after one of the club’s customers recognized him in a booth after having recently seen the image of the alleged cyber scammer on a television program.
The witness notified the National Police Corps, which then sent a team to the nightclub, whose agents confirmed his identity and verified that the young man had several legal claims in force for which he was arrested.
Once arrested, Lupín, who at that time had almost 12,000 euros in cash, requested a ‘habeas corpus’, to be immediately brought before the judge, and was transferred to the Investigating Judge number 3 of Madrid, according to what was reported in his moment to EFE legal sources.
The known criminal did not state before the judge that he had nine judicial claims for fraud issued by courts in Ponferrada (León), Elche (Alicante), Guadalajara, Albacete, Cádiz and Madrid.
However, the magistrate confirmed these search and arrest warrants, plus an order to commit him to prison, so she dismissed the ‘habeas corpus’ and he was brought to justice.
