Dollar scammer held by her victims in Artemisa

A woman who allegedly tried to scam some Cubans in Artemisa is being held by the people with whom she conducted the business and they are threatening not to let her go "until she returns the money."

The report of this incident was made by the Cuban activist residing in the United States, Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia, who called on the woman's family or friends to return the money.

"This woman went today to Alquízar, Artemisa province, to the house of some people, with two men in a yellow taxi to buy 2000 MLC, they made the transfer and from Havana they called that the money had not entered the card," wrote Salcedo Verdecia on his Facebook profile.

While sharing images of the woman, the activist added that the men accompanying her fled.

According to the publication, the alleged thief is in the house "under surveillance" and "does not want to talk, she is very calm."

In the place where the woman is being held, "they say they are not going to let her go until they get their money back," and they threaten not to give her "food or water," the post adds.

The complaint also states that "the police are aware and they say they will not get involved."

At the end of June, the Cuban police dismantled a network of million-dollar scams in the illegal buying and selling of foreign currency in the city of Santa Clara, Villa Clara, and arrested the four women who were allegedly part of it.

From late 2023 until the time of their arrest, the detainees carried out more than 15 scam operations, each amounting to between 800,000 and more than 1,000,000 Cuban pesos, according to information provided to the CMHW broadcaster by Lieutenant Colonel Héctor de la Fe Freire, head of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) in the central Cuban city.

Last February, two men were also arrested in Santa Clara for their involvement in several cases of fraud in the illegal sale of foreign currency.

A month earlier, in the same city, the police arrested three men and a woman for multiple cases of fraud and robbery with violence related to the buying and selling of foreign currency.

Around that time, in response to the increase in scams when making bank transfers using the Central Bank of Cuba's application, Transfermóvil, a Cuban made a video demonstrating how criminals carry out this type of theft.

The young man warned his followers to observe the modus operandi of those he called "freeloaders," and he asked them not to be deceived, as well as to share "the video with all your acquaintances to unmask these thieves."