The Joinville (DCE) estelionate police station launched, on Friday (4), a police operation investigating the practice of estelionates with the use of fraudulent facial recognition in Santa Catarina.
Search and seizure warrants were served in the cities of São Paulo (SP), Volta Redonda (RJ) and Joinville (SC).
The scheme was organized by an employee of a telephone company. The suspect simulated regular sales of mobile lines to customers to obtain illicit biometrics validations.
With this information was made account opening and the release of simplified microcredit in digital banks.
The fraud was perceived by the victims, after being negative in credit protection services by financial institutions with which they have never maintained any kind of relationship.
According to the Santa Catarina Civil Police, it is estimated that the coup may have affected more than 50 individuals and legal entities. More than 1500 complaints were also reported, regarding payrolls not hired by the Joinville Consumer Protection Body, in the last 12 months alone.
The teams that operate in the case, made a joint inspection of stores in the same segment and linked to Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency), so that similar crimes do not happen.
This content was originally published in an illegal facial biometrics collection scheme is triggered in SC on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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