Thanks to the complaints made by Canadian tourists, Victim of a scam in the Historic Center of Cartagenacoachman and data phone operator theft through bank transaction 18 million pesos for a car ride in the Colonial City.
Allegedly, the foreign citizen gave 4 cards to the driver to make the payment, but the driver said that the transactions could not be completed. To surprise the traveler The shame of a city that lives off tourismThe operators had stolen the millionaire’s amount in Colombian pesos.
In a video that went viral on social networks, the version of Iván, the coachman who took the tourist, was known, who claimed that he was paid only one million pesos.
The traveler told the authorities, “He offered to take me for 180 thousand pesos. After I refused, he accepted for 100 thousand pesos, that is, about 25 dollars.”
The scam took place on December 21, and the victim was the young woman Can Lin Yu Chen.
“During the tour, the tourist tells me he has no money, so I go to the girl operating the dataphone. When I return to work the next day, a colleague tells me: ‘They left this there for you.’ I look and it’s a million pesos. I hide them, but within a few hours the police say He will call me, so I’m going to where they are,” says the man with a sarcastic tone. The man, who assures that he is a coachman, said that he has been living in the stone pen for 15 years and this is the first time he has been involved in a scam.
A car ride inside the walled cordon, as tourists do, should not cost more than 90 thousand pesos.
However, the next morning the traveler realized that three million dollars worth of transactions had been made.
They demanded 6 million pesos in the first transaction; in the second, again 6 million; and there’s another one for 5 million.
“When we came to the police check, I met the tourist there, they investigated me and released me. I returned the next day and went to the police station. They took my statement, took the money that belonged to me and returned. The driver says, “I apologize to the tourist.”
According to the city’s Minister of Internal Affairs, the woman operating the data phone and the main culprit of the scam have already been identified, and the Canadian citizen has already received the first 6 million pesos.
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Source: Exame
