Woman denounces that she was impersonated to commit crime: she is thinking of changing her name

Every day they are full of anxiety and anguish for Daniela Rubio Roa, a 24-year-old girl who, because of unscrupulous people, lost her legal identity. The woman has been impersonated on different occasions and through various means, in fact, she falls, not only debts, but also threats from people who claim to have been scammed by her. The woman claims to feel desperate, so much so that she has thought about radical actions before the law such as changing her name. The citizen's complaint was exposed in the newspaper El Tiempo, where she told her story in detail.

As he said in his talk with the newspaper, it all started when he heard about a report that fell in his name at the financial risk center, Datacrédito. She was about to close a business to buy an apartment, however, the process was cut short when she was told that her name appeared in that entity. The debt for which his data was registered with the risk center was due to a purchase of cosmetics. By 2019, Daniela would supposedly have bought items of this type valued at 350,000 pesos, through a catalogue magazine.

The purchase, made by the person who impersonated Daniela, arrived at a house located in the Isla del Sol neighborhood, in the south of Bogotá. That person not only knew Daniela's contact number, but also knew her full name, her ID number and the date of issue of that document. Daniela claimed that she did not know the house and that the purchase had not been made by her, so she decided to take her case before the Prosecutor's Office. The woman said that although the complaint gave her some peace of mind, she realized that the problem was bigger than she thought.

In addition to the debt she had with the magazine, she had an obligation in arrears to a telecommunications company, according to that company, she had requested the installation of internet, telephone and television services. The debts were joined by personal issues when the scammers behind the case began to impersonate it on social networks. Friends and relatives of Daniela began to receive messages from someone who claimed to be her.

In her name, victims of the person who pretended to be Daniela say, negotiations were also held on alleged leases of farms. The person rented fictitious places, received the money, and then disappeared and stopped answering. Faced with these scams, Daniela was accused of being a liar and received death threats.

“Shit scammer, I have you already located”, reads in one of the messages that the young woman received. Rubio Roa is a merchant in a liquor company in Bogotá and, because of what has been happening, he claims to have fallen into depression. People say that she has sold them clothes through the internet, businesses that she has no knowledge of.

Under Daniela's name there is a Facebook account and a WhatsApp number that, she reiterates, are not hers. The woman is a wife and mother, and she fears that citizens who do not know about the situation will attack her or her family. About Daniela, in fact, there are two complaints against her for fraud. In less than a year, she was forced to close her Facebook account and change her home.

“You sometimes leave the photocopy of your ID somewhere where you print, or someone close, I don't know what happened. That person wants to screw me, I don't know who he is, but he wants to destroy me. He took over my life, wrote to my friends on Facebook pretending to be me. I thought it was terrible, they messed with my family, I am afraid that the people affected will not believe me and seek to harm us, and I don't know how to solve it,” the victim explained about her case to the newspaper El Tiempo.

According to figures from Trans-Union, a global information firm, in Colombia, this type of crime has increased by 243%. To avoid them, the entity recommends that different actions can be taken, including not publishing personal data on social networks and correctly configuring the privacy of these spaces. It is also necessary to delete profiles that are no longer used. In the same way, it is necessary to avoid clicking on suspicious links that, for the most part, arrive via email or text messages.

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