Amador, the love cheater, is in prison. This 65-year-old man with a trail of women behind him who claim to have been cheated by him was arrested by police in Carmona (Seville) this week. According to the investigation, Amador A. contacted his victims through social networks such as Badoo and Facebook, tricking them into believing he was a man of economic opportunity. After a while he persuaded her to give him money or jewelry. He took on various roles, his favorite being that of the Guardia Civil, a body he belonged to but left in 1986. He even faked a marriage proposal with one of these women in a hotel in Madrid, after which he disappeared, leaving the bill for the party to the woman.
The man has evaded fraud proceedings on several occasions, most recently in Madrid’s provincial court late last year when he filed a last-minute letter claiming he could not appear for medical reasons. The court had reported this hearing for the third time, but it wasn’t the appeal. In this process, the public prosecutor includes the complaint of two women: Alicia and Begoña. With the first, he started speaking on Facebook. He assured her that he was a member of the People’s Party, had very influential contacts, and even went so far as to pretend to be on the phone with then party leader Pablo Casado. The woman gave him three watches and a boar horn necklace.
Begoña is the protagonist of the false handout after which the man disappeared. According to the State Department, this victim gave him a copy of the keys to his house, which he used to take rings and bracelets. Who could doubt a man who poses for his photos with horses and invites guests to the most expensive restaurants? Convinced of his facade, this woman also gave him 3,500 euros for an “investment opportunity”. In total, Begoña demands almost 14,000 euros. The public prosecutor’s office is seeking four years in prison for fraud and continued theft for these incidents. Police found nine bailiffs across Spain charged him.
This last method, that of undeniable investments, was also used on men who also fell into his fraudulent networks. For example, he assured his victims that through his contacts in the Civil Guard he knew of the existence of car auctions to which only he had access, and asked them in advance for the money to bid on. He also spoke of investment funds with guaranteed benefits. In order to convince his victims to hand over the jewels, he also explained that he knew a jeweler who would insert microchips so that he could locate them if they were stolen.
Antonia, one of the allegedly betrayed women.
The list of people claiming to have been scammed by Amador is so long that they have even joined WhatsApp and Facebook groups to provide information and stop him from scamming other potential victims. When he opened a new profile on social networks, these victims identified and shared it to warn other users. This newspaper has found up to seven different Facebook accounts on which he poses with his supposed mares and with the Virgen del Rocío. These groups are followed with interest by women like Antonia and Conchi. The first, from Seville, assures that he gave her a gold cord, which she bought in a department store with her first salary and never saw again. The second, from Madrid, says she once urgently loaned him money because he called her and said he had been “run over by a car”.
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The detainee is from Lora del Río (Seville), but according to the police, “he evaded justice by not appearing at the court hearings at which he was summoned and frequently changing his address throughout Spain”. His last place of residence, Carmona, was where the agents put the chains on him. This is the moment when the victims hope to finally see justice after so many years.
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