MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Jail records show a Cuban national living near Cutler Bay is facing four felony charges and an immigration hold after sheriff\u2019s deputies say he used trickery to scam a woman out of $1,000 in a \u201cspoof call\u201d scheme.<\/p>\n
Investigators with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office said Leandro Sanchez Leyva pretended to be a representative of Atlanta-based Delta Community Credit Union, spoofing a real phone number for the financial institution, and using \u201cdeceptive tactics to psychologically manipulate and persuade the victim into believing her USAA Bank account had sustained a series of fraudulent transactions and that a full-scale account takeover was occurring.\u201d<\/p>\n
An MDSO report states that Sanchez, 33, \u201cutilized fear and urgency\u201d in order to get the woman to send him $1,000 via Zelle, claiming that the digital payment service was \u201ca way to curtail and prevent fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deputies said that bank records later showed that he withdrew the funds from his Wells Fargo account.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the woman later told detectives she felt \u201cdeceived\u201d by the \u201csophisticated\u201d impersonation. Detectives said they showed her a photo of Sanchez and she told them she had no idea who he was.<\/p>\n
The report doesn\u2019t state how he\u2019s alleged to have gotten her information prior to calling her. It also doesn\u2019t state whether she lived in South Florida or elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Deputies took Sanchez into custody on Thursday at his apartment in the 10400 block of Old Cutler Road, just outside of the Cutler Bay town limits.<\/p>\n
According to the report, he \u201cconfessed and admitted to knowingly receiving the fraudulent deposits from the victim\u201d and admitted visiting two ATMs to withdraw the ill-gotten funds from his bank account on separate days.<\/p>\n
Deputies took Sanchez into custody on charges of organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, fraudulent use of personal identification information and communications fraud.<\/p>\n
He was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Friday morning. Online county corrections department records indicate that he posted a $10,000 bond, though it\u2019s unclear whether the listed immigration hold might keep him in TGK for an extended period.<\/p>\n
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