This Monday, a 42-year-old woman was arrested in the Buenos Aires city of The Silver accused of repeated scams. The apprehended She is suspected of having stolen a co-worker’s credit card and using it to make various transactions.among them purchase of tickets to the Atlantic coast and payment of the gas bill.
According to local media, The complaint was filed in January, when the victim detected that her account had consumption that was not hers.. both women They were classmates and worked as cleaning assistants at a kindergarten. located in the capital of Buenos Aires.
With the judicial investigation underway by UFI No. 16, the Cybercrime Investigations Directorate of the Buenos Aires Police tracked purchases that had been made on various digital platforms between the end of November and December 2025.
Among the expenses charged on the victim’s credit card were tickets to San Bernardo in the name of the accused and her son, a double bed, jewelry and a television. It wasn’t the only thing. lThe suspect also used other people’s money for purchases in supermarkets and even to pay the gas bill for her own home.
Following the search warrant at the suspect’s home, The Police seized all of the aforementioned items and electronic devices. Besides, They found handwritten notes with the numbers and bank codes of the victimdata that would have been obtained where both kept their belongings at school.
The case was classified as a scam and was left in the hands of the prosecutor Juan Cruz Condomí Alcorta, with the intervention of the Guarantee Court No. 5. The woman was detained and the investigation remains open.
After a complaint filed by the Specialized Fiscal Unit in Cybercrime (Ufeci), headed by Attorney General Horacio Azzolinthe National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 57 issued a measure not to innovate where ordered the Banco Provincia de Buenos Aires not to make any debit or discount in the account of a retired womanwhich was victim of a virtual scam.
The irregular episode began when The victim tried to make a claim to the VISA company. “In this context, she searched for a phone number on the Google search engine, from where she was directed to chat via WhatsApp with the false credit card operators. In that communication, the defendants asked her for personal and banking information and photographs of her ID.”as officially reported.
The information was used by those involved to enter the woman’s bank account, request a loan for 7,000,000 pesos and then transfer the money to herself, which left the victim with an empty account, but with the obligation to pay that debt that he neither requested nor consented to..
