Sagua la Grande warns of Transfermóvil scams
Callers pretend to manage parcel deliveries and ask victims to enter figures in the app that can trigger money transfers.
A telephone-fraud scheme uses fake parcel-delivery procedures to induce people to transfer money through Transfermóvil, according to complaints in Sagua la Grande, Villa Clara.
Callers present themselves as intermediaries for agencies supposedly handling shipments from abroad. They then ask the victim to open the transfer section, enter a card number and place a supposed code in the field intended for the amount.
The number functions as an amount of money, not a delivery code: entering “00012000,” for example, can cause the app to process a 12,000-peso transfer. Complaints have been filed in the locality.
The record also includes earlier reports of a similar scheme in Sancti Spíritus and a June case in which a family reported losing more than 104,000 CUP.