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Criminals Tamper With Street Telephone Boxes To Extract Financial Information

Thieves are getting more ingenuous every day and where less expected, criminals hands are at work. This time a gang made up of 9 individuals were the focus of attention of investigators after receiving a number of complaints of fraud.

It appears that the gang broke into the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) telephone boxes located on public streets, tapping into conversations of their selected victims to obtain detailed financial information.

Using information obtained by Datum and other information services that provide names, telephone numbers, property ownership and other financial information, the gang chose their victims.

ICE spokesperson Elberth Durán explained that the institution is making a full check of all theri telephone boxes, some which have been found to have been tampered with. Durán emphasized that the tampering are isolated incidents, however, there will be a full internal investigation and is asking residents to report to authorities any suspicious behaviour around the telephone boxes.