A 44-year-old woman in Maricao reported to authorities that she was defrauded of $22,500 through an email scam, Puerto Rico police said. The woman filed the complaint on the afternoon of Saturday, November 7. According to her report, she was told by email that she owed the sum; neither who was demanding the money nor the reason for the demand was specified.
The events began in July 2020, when the complainant sent 11 money orders totaling that amount to an email address that had been provided to her. Agent Samuel Sánchez of the Maricao District investigated the complaint preliminarily. The investigation is now in the hands of personnel from the Criminal Investigations Corps (CIC) in Mayagüez.