Impersonating another person can be quite expensive and even more so when fraudulent strategies are used to carry out criminal acts with the main objective of obtaining good loot. This has been decreed by the justice of Galicia during a court session that leaves a couple accused of fraud in a bad light. What led this couple to launch such an action to violate the right to privacy?
Identity theft is one of the methods most used by cybercriminals for lucrative purposes, so they pretend to be people who they really are not and this can have catastrophic consequences for the owners. With a DNI you can carry out all kinds of procedures online, but how do they use this type of mechanics to obtain legitimate cards without the consent of real identities and deceive banks and other entities?
To prison for using third party ID
A couple from Galicia has been sentenced by the Superior Court of Justice to a year and a half in prison and compensation of 30,000 euros to the companies affected for falsifying documents, appropriation of personal data through original DNI and using fraud to apply. online loans, while the woman held her position as an administrator between November 2014 and October 2016.
To obtain this aid, the criminals opened bank accounts with a good amount of money to show that they were wealthy enough to receive these loans, and they provided information through photographs that they made of the DNI that the employee obtained at her workplace, specifically in the office of the Public Employment Service in Melide. Consequently, to cover up any evidence, they made companies believe that they did not know how it had happened and that they themselves were the victims of all these cases.
In turn, if they needed more documentation to obtain benefits, they falsified payrolls with the authentic name of the victim and filled out the forms with all the confidential information. In this way, the perpetrators of these misdeeds received the money from the loans they requested from one of the accounts they noted in the reports.
How did they get their way?
To avoid raising suspicions, on some occasions, they returned the money for the loan they requested or made a deferral to pay all those advances, so that they prevented any of the people they were impersonating from finding out what happened and having to take responsibility for these misdeeds. .
In this way, using another’s DNI for this type of situation is as if it were being used by the holder of said document, which constitutes identity theft and violation of the right to honor and privacy.
Finally, the Provincial Court of A Coruña considered these events as fraudulent and vandalistic acts, echoing each and every one of the incidents and considering the DNI as commercial documents, due largely to the way in which that money was obtained. This is how he ended up sentencing the couple to the stipulated prison sentence.
