Overview
- Callers posed as lawyers at about 1 a.m., falsely claiming the couple’s son was detained after a fatal incident and demanding $40,000.
- División Investigaciones Comunales 14 organized an undercover operation after the victims alerted Policía de la Ciudad.
- An officer posed as the payer with a bag appearing to contain dollars and met the collector at a café at Santa Fe and Billinghurst.
- Police arrested a 24-year-old at around 11:30 a.m. and seized a cellphone and a Peugeot 208 linked to the attempt.
- Fiscalía Nacional en lo Criminal y Correccional Nº23 ordered detention for attempted fraud as Security Minister Horacio Giménez urged victims to report such scams.