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Fake investment empire brought down in Madrid after Ponzi gang ‘cloned legitimate platform to swindle victims out of €2 million’

AN ALLEGED criminal network accused of defrauding victims out of nearly €2 million through fake investment schemes has been dismantled in Madrid, with 11 people

11 May, 2026 @ 17:20

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

‘Catch me if you can’: The fabulous lies of a con artist who treated patients as a fake nurse in Malaga for FIVE YEARS using stolen ID

A MAN has been arrested in Malaga after posing as a qualified nurse for more than five years, reportedly securing contracts across both public and

12 Feb, 2026 @ 12:15

Almeria·Health·Lead·Malaga

Text fraud warning in Spain: How hundreds of parents sent €850,000 to scammers posing as their children in distress

REVEALED: How fake police and bank officials are targeting expats in Spain-wide phone scam

EASTERN European phone scammers have been preying on fellow expats across Spain, an Olive Press investigation has revealed – siphoning at least €45,000 from just

21 Nov, 2025 @ 11:44

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Valencia

Ex-mayor committed fraud over ‘illegal’ villas sold to British buyers in picturesque Alicante area town

A FORMER mayor of Lliber, Jose Mas, has been convicted of fraud over licences granted to the building of 290 illegal villas. The properties were

2 Oct, 2025 @ 18:20

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Crooked carer steals €30k from dead client by using her bank account and cash cards in Valencia

A WOMAN who cared after an elderly female client in Valencia helped herself to over €30,000- mainly after she died last September. The carer, 43,

19 Aug, 2025 @ 15:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Angry camper van buyers across Spain are fleeced by conman who sends them nothing for their money

Camper van buyers across Spain are fleeced by conman who doesn’t deliver their purchases

A MAN running an online camper van sales business has been arrested for defrauding at least a dozen people across Spain. The 46-year-old Spaniard from

7 Aug, 2025 @ 16:45

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Police in Spain issue fraud warning: Scammers use ‘fake QR codes’ from DGT to ‘swindle thousands in bogus fines’

FRAUDULENT speeding tickets displaying the city’s coat of arms have been found by local Malaga police. The fines reportedly lack basic information, such as the

29 Jul, 2025 @ 16:50

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

How crooks are stealing Spanish villas with forged powers of attorney and sinister late-night threats

The Olive Press has revealed the astonishing cases of two foreigners, a Swede and an American, who have had their Costa del Sol properties stolen

22 Jun, 2025 @ 16:22

Andalucia·Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead·Marbella·Property

British expat defrauded of €86k by couple who ran Costa Blanca consultancy to help foreigners in Spain

Elderly man in Spain kidnapped by ‘carers’ who swindled him out of €83k and changed his will

A COUPLE have been accused of scamming an elderly Alicante man out of €83,000 and also getting him to change his will to make them

15 Apr, 2025 @ 18:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Ponzi scheme with thousand of victims smashed with raids in Malaga, Murcia and Madrid

A CRIMINAL fraud scheme worth 37 million euros has been broken up by the Spanish National Police. Perhaps as many as four thousand people could

18 Mar, 2025 @ 12:06

Crime & Law·Madrid·Murcia

Squatters find new way to beat evictions in Spain after law change

This is the quickest way to get rid of squatters in Spain, according to a leading judge

A SUPREME Court judge says some squatters in Spain should be charged with fraud to help landlords get them evicted quickly. Vicente Magro believes people

8 Jan, 2025 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Property

Over 100 foreign nationals discovered as being registered at the same address in scam to get residency in Spain

Fake residency ring is busted in Spain after 100 foreign nationals are registered to the same address

A MAN used the address of his deceased father’s Valencia area apartment as a money-making ruse to illegally register over 100 foreign nationals. The 35-year-old

24 Dec, 2024 @ 12:00

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Crypto-fraudsters stole €19m from over 200 victims lured by AI-generated celebrity endorsements in Spain

Cyber scammers pocket over €5 million by defrauding users of cloned electronic product websites in Spain

CYBER criminals banked over €5 million by cloning websites selling high-end electrical products that customers never received. Three people have been arrested in the Orihuela

21 Nov, 2024 @ 17:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Spain busts the country’s most popular illegal football streaming service

A MAJOR online pirate TV supplier of La Liga football matches has been shut down by the Guardia Civil. ‘Crystal Azul’ had around 78,000 international

16 Nov, 2024 @ 07:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Razor blade scammers looked for €1m bonanza by selling top ‘brand name’ imported fakes in Spain

A RAZOR blade scam worth over €1 million has been busted by authorities with seven Spaniards and Italians arrested. The Policia Nacional and the Tax

13 Aug, 2024 @ 12:15

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Man exploited 40 migrants by cramming them into his flat in Spain and charging €100 per month in rent

Woman steals identity of a dead baby before embarking on 10-year criminal career as head of a mafia gang on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A WOMAN from the Dominican Republic used the identity of a deceased two-month-old baby to gain Spanish nationality before setting up a Costa Blanca-based criminal

22 Apr, 2024 @ 16:30

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law

Man ran residency fraud with his mother illegally getting free health treatment on Spain's Costa Blanca

Retired Brits fall prey to €1.8million timeshare scam on Spain’s Costa del Sol: Police make multiple arrests

SPAIN’S Policia Nacional have busted a gang based in Malaga province that was scamming retired Brits on a massive scale, and is thought to have

5 Apr, 2024 @ 11:05

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Other News

‘Fake doctor’ on Spain’s Costa del Sol had ‘10 appointments per day’ and ‘charged up to €4,000 for treatment’

Have you been a victim in a fraud case? If so, message: tips@theolivepress.es A ‘FAKE doctor’ who defrauded patients on the Costa del Sol for

28 Feb, 2024 @ 10:48

Andalucia·Costa del Sol·Health·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Warning over holiday rental scams in southern Spain: Three are arrested for 'defrauding unsuspecting tourists out of tens of thousands of euros'

Spain’s police make 65 arrests in bust of cybercrime gang using the ’Hi Mum!” scam

IT is a scam that is being used around the world, and that can catch out even the most vigilant citizen. Known as “Hi Mum!”,

7 Feb, 2024 @ 10:20

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Mass Arrests In Spain's Malaga Over Fraudulent Residency Applications For British Citizens Including Criminals

Spain’s National Police arrest 14, including two civil servants, over fake residency papers ring

A TOTAL of 14 people have been arrested in Alicante province on suspicion of faking documents in order to secure residency in Spain as well

5 Oct, 2023 @ 14:45

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Two 2000-year-old Amphoras discovered off coast of Spain’s Cadiz

EXCLUSIVE: English and Irish fugitives arrested in Spain’s Costa del Sol

TWO fugitives wanted by the British and Irish justice have been arrested on the Costa del Sol. A 47-year-old English fugitive known as P.M.C and

18 Aug, 2023 @ 13:25

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Marbella·Must Read

Woman ordered to pay back dead brother’s pension that she claimed for 24 years in Spain’s Valencia region

A VALENCIA area woman has been given a two-year prison sentence and ordered to repay €135,805 to Social Security after her claiming her dead brother’s

14 Aug, 2023 @ 13:30

Crime & Law·Valencia·Valencian Community

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Spain’s Civil Guard nabs British holidaymaker at Santander ferry port over unpaid hotel bill

HE NEARLY got away with it… A 64-year-old British holidaymaker was arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard as he was about to board a ferry

4 Aug, 2023 @ 12:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Travel News

Online scams, thefts, and physical assaults leap up to produce big rise in Spain's crime rate after pandemic kept criminals at home

Spain’s Civil Guard arrests more than 100 people on suspicion of €1m SMS bank fraud scam

GOT A STORY? Email us at tips@theolivepress.es MORE than 100 people have been arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard on suspicion of defrauding as much

1 Aug, 2023 @ 19:00

Crime & Law·Lead

Cops in Spain’s Tenerife arrest three after SMS bank phishing scam nets them €200,000

THE CIVIL GUARD has made three arrests in Tenerife after detecting an SMS phishing scam that conned as many as 170 people across Spain. A

30 Jul, 2023 @ 12:45

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Police in Spain arrest and investigate over 100 online buyers of fake university degrees

THE POLICIA NACIONAL has arrested 20 people and are investigating another hundred in Spain for online purchases of bogus degrees from approximately 30 Spanish universities.

14 Jun, 2023 @ 11:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·National News

Fake investment empire brought down in Madrid after Ponzi gang ‘cloned legitimate platform to swindle victims out of €2 million’

‘Catch me if you can’: The fabulous lies of a con artist who treated patients as a fake nurse in Malaga for FIVE YEARS using stolen ID

REVEALED: How fake police and bank officials are targeting expats in Spain-wide phone scam

Ex-mayor committed fraud over ‘illegal’ villas sold to British buyers in picturesque Alicante area town

Crooked carer steals €30k from dead client by using her bank account and cash cards in Valencia

Camper van buyers across Spain are fleeced by conman who doesn’t deliver their purchases

Police in Spain issue fraud warning: Scammers use ‘fake QR codes’ from DGT to ‘swindle thousands in bogus fines’

How crooks are stealing Spanish villas with forged powers of attorney and sinister late-night threats

Elderly man in Spain kidnapped by ‘carers’ who swindled him out of €83k and changed his will

Ponzi scheme with thousand of victims smashed with raids in Malaga, Murcia and Madrid

This is the quickest way to get rid of squatters in Spain, according to a leading judge

Fake residency ring is busted in Spain after 100 foreign nationals are registered to the same address

Cyber scammers pocket over €5 million by defrauding users of cloned electronic product websites in Spain

Spain busts the country’s most popular illegal football streaming service

Razor blade scammers looked for €1m bonanza by selling top ‘brand name’ imported fakes in Spain

Retired Brits fall prey to €1.8million timeshare scam on Spain’s Costa del Sol: Police make multiple arrests

‘Fake doctor’ on Spain’s Costa del Sol had ‘10 appointments per day’ and ‘charged up to €4,000 for treatment’

Spain’s police make 65 arrests in bust of cybercrime gang using the ’Hi Mum!” scam

Spain’s National Police arrest 14, including two civil servants, over fake residency papers ring

EXCLUSIVE: English and Irish fugitives arrested in Spain’s Costa del Sol

Woman ordered to pay back dead brother’s pension that she claimed for 24 years in Spain’s Valencia region

Spain’s Civil Guard nabs British holidaymaker at Santander ferry port over unpaid hotel bill

Spain’s Civil Guard arrests more than 100 people on suspicion of €1m SMS bank fraud scam

Cops in Spain’s Tenerife arrest three after SMS bank phishing scam nets them €200,000

Police in Spain arrest and investigate over 100 online buyers of fake university degrees

BREAKING: Son of Mango founder arrested for suspected murder over billionaire father’s mountain fall in Barcelona

WATCH: Massive 22,000-litre palm oil spill sparks alarm in the Bay of Gibraltar

WATCH: Shock in Barcelona as ‘known drug dealer’ is shot in the head in broad daylight on busy street

You can now use Spain’s favourite payment app in shops – here is how the new ‘Bizum Pay’ works

WATCH: Neo-Nazi woman arrested in Catalunya for plastering children’s playground with anti-Muslim graffiti

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