Four other victims also contacted the police to report a 24yearold boy.
Only one of the victims claimed to have lost R$30,000. (Photo: Archives/CG News)
A 55yearold app driver went to the police to file an alleged false investment scam report. He, who prefers not to be named, lost R$30,000 and even sued a city guard for his involvement in the plan. The case is under investigation. The alleged scammer is said to be a 24yearold boy.
For the Campo Grande News, the victim explained that he sought out the boy to make an investment after the city guard asked him to pay R$10,000 in his name and another R$20,000 in his wife’s name about two years ago. And the promise would be that the amount would be deposited into the app driver’s account with the earnings, which never happened.
In November 2022, he then went to the civil police and filed a complaint for embezzlement. In addition, he even denounced the city guard at the institution’s internal affairs bureau, claiming that he was involved in the coup.
In addition to the app driver, four other people would have fallen victim to the same scam. The youngest was registered in January this year. According to the incident report, the 46yearold man, a truck driver, went to the 7th Civil Police Station on the 25th of the month.
According to the man, he signed an investment agreement with the alleged scammer dated July 8, 2022, in which he transferred R$50,000 to the boy and in a second agreement on the same day spent another R$70 thousand. Stocks that are expected to yield 4% or 8% interest monthly. The deal would expire on January 9, 2023.
The victim told police that she had received R$6,136 on September 27 last year, but after that there was no transfer and the boy stopped answering her calls, as did the insurance company CPM Investimentos responsible for the crime be through investments.
In addition to the two drivers, a woman, whose age and name were not disclosed, also reported the boy to the scam. In the report, she claims that she was in a relationship for nine months. During their time together, she transferred BRL117,500 for an investment in the exchange to be made with CPM, part of which was returned after six months.
However, she would have found out that the boy had posed as a federal highway cop and ended the relationship. A while later the woman asked him about the contract and he set up a meeting where some investment apps screens were shown showing the amounts blocked so he would not make the payments.
The boy would then have offered his car as payment if the deal hadn’t gone through. However, when the contract expired, the victim went in search of the suspect, who claimed the vehicle was financed and could not pass it on as payment and that he did not have the money to pay. Then he stopped responding to his exgirlfriend’s messages.
She also claims that to mitigate the damage, the author suggested that she issue a credit card in her name and route it through an alleged accomplice’s machine. This transaction was disputed by them and the amount withheld and then passed on to the woman, but she did not accept this.
In the same year, another person reported the boy to the police. This time the victim invested BRL 40,000 and received no payment from the defendant for four months.
O Campo Grande News Contacting the appointed city guard involved in the scheme, he claimed that he had four contracts with the boy, one for himself and the other for his wife and two children, and that he even paid the amounts for about one Year received, but then the problems began.
According to him, the allegation of involvement is not continued because he only reported the boy to the driver. He also claims that he has already been heard by the Home Office about the complaint, but does not understand why he was named as responsible.
“I also work as a locksmith. He knew the investment was risky. I filed a defamation complaint against him. Even in the church I attend, he blamed me. I also have contracts and amounts to receive with the boy,” he said.
The owner of the Sesdes (Municipal Secretariat for Security and Social Defense), Anderson Gonzaga, explained that the applicant contacted the GCM Ombudsman and lodged the complaint and that the case was referred to the Department of Internal Affairs for factfinding.
The alleged scammer was also wanted in the report, but all the phones we had access to were listed as not present. CPM Investimentos was also contacted using a number available on the internet, however the number also did not appear to exist.
As all victims pointed out, the boy had an office in Jardim Monte Líbano, but they could never be looked after by him. CPM Investimentos is a company from Sumaré (SP) and collects several complaints on the Reclame Aqui portal that the company has disappeared and has not paid the invested amounts to customers.