Cyber Witch?

We can’t think of a better title to describe a woman charged with over 1,000 offenses… from bomb-hoax calls to identity theft.

Around the middle of February the police received a bomb warning at a main hospital in Granada; the hospital itself also received a call. One week before Granada bus station and its airport also received false, bomb alerts. Each time it was from a woman caller.

The caller turned out to be a 34-year-old woman from Huéneja (Granada) but domiciled in El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona.

She stands accused of 1,083 crimes, amongst them hoax bomb calls, fraud and identity theft involving up to 100 victims.

The woman was arrested as part of the police operation Llamaya which also bagged nine other people. Five locutorio owners were also charged for allegedly activating mobile pay-as-you-go numbers using the stolen identities, which were later allegedly used by this woman to make the hoax calls. A total of 64 telephone numbers were created for this purpose.

But it doesn’t stop there because the woman also made male Internet users’ lives a misery after contacting them via the web. One of them actually met her for a date arranged online, but it didn’t go any further, but it was too late for the victim because she had already reportedly obtained a lot of personal information from him.

She first published photos of him on social networking sites, accusing him of being a wife beater, giving his address and telephone number.

Her next move was to phone his work to say that he was the murderer of two children from Córdoba (the murder of Ruth and José is a long-running, high-media-profile case).

Her next party trick was to phone the police to say that he was planning an attempt on the King of Spain’s life. It didn’t take long for him to receive a visit from the Guardia Civil.

Another of her victims was a transport driver whom she had met online, too. He met her and decided that was enough for him, so she allegedly exacted revenge: she used his personal information to make online purchases in his name. She even approached his family to besmirch him.

(News: Huenjar, Granada, Andalucia)

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