Venezuelan woman in the United States was scammed from Tocuyito prison with more than 3,000 dollars

Rusbelys Robles, a Venezuelan nurse, suffered a serious scam in her desperate search to regularize her status in the United States. The woman paid more than $3,000 for what she believed were immigration procedures, but in reality they were A scam orchestrated from Tocuyito prison in Venezuela.

A man who called himself Cortez, who operated from the shadows, ran the scam in which not only the Venezuelan woman was a victim. This man allegedly had an office in a building in New Jersey. He spoke Spanish with an English accent and sent documents with official logos from the Citizenship and Immigration Services, Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.

What was the scam that the Venezuelan woman in the United States fell victim to?

The first phase of Cortez’s scam required payments of between $300 and $1,000. The man would then orchestrate a Skype hearing in which he demanded payments of $250 for the privilege of having a Spanish-speaking judge. All payments were received by intermediaries in U.S. bank accounts through Zelle.

In total, The Venezuelan woman in the United States handed over 3,365 dollarspart of which she obtained through loans and her work as a house cleaner.

“I gave everything I did to her,” Robles told Univision. She even went so far as to take money from her daughters, one of whom has Down syndrome, from the market.

Univision Investiga discovered that Cortez’s alleged office in New Jersey did not exist. Furthermore, suspicions grew when the actors in the court hearings began to change roles. On one occasion, the woman who was posing as a judge acted as a lawyer and vice versa.

Pastor Sandro Martinez of the local church also exposed the lie by noting that the emails supposedly sent by federal agencies came from Google Mail accounts, not “.gov” domains.

Offender from Tocuyito prison admits fraud

Cortez, from Tocuyito prison in Venezuela, admitted to Univision without a guilty conscience that it was all a scam. He had created a visual montage of the court using audiovisual editing technology. He also boasted of belonging to the violent Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization that operates from Venezuelan prisons.

Despite the confessions, Cortez refused to reveal his real name and nationality.

Both the Venezuelan woman in the United States and the pastor and other victims were scammed out of thousands of dollars.