Overview
- Police in Valladolid identified eight account holders used as money mules in a TikTok-linked crypto investment scam that cost a victim €9,780, with the case now before the judicial authority.
- Four suspects were detained in Zamora and León over a fake vehicle insurance scheme that allegedly defrauded about 500 people of roughly €500,000 using social media ads and mule accounts.
- A financial adviser was arrested in Valladolid under Operación Presteda, accused of obtaining loans and credit in clients’ names from 2021 to 2025 for more than €122,000, hitting many self‑employed victims who then appeared on ASNEF lists.
- Bilbao municipal police disrupted a group that stole handbags and used the IDs to empty bank accounts, detaining one woman and identifying two men tied to more than €40,000 in losses this year.
- Further actions included a Sabadell arrest in a €1,766 vishing case, the detention at Alicante airport of a woman wanted by Poland for a bank‑impersonation fraud with extradition pending before the Audiencia Nacional, a Medina del Campo card‑not‑present case totaling €694, and a Valencia arrest after a dating‑app assault followed by more than €1,000 in fraudulent transactions.