2023-05-25 16:42:10
The Central Research and Analysis Group (GIAT Central) of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard, has been investigating in recent weeks several web pages that offer to obtain a “legal” Spanish driving license simply by paying a fee. amount of money that, for example, in the case of permit B amounts to €850.
Faced with this situation, the General Directorate of Traffic wants to alert the population, remembering that this is completely impossible.
In Spain it is essential to pass an exam in order to obtain a driving license or, for non-EU foreigners who already have one, exchange it for a Spanish one in case of being a citizen of countries with which there is an exchange agreement. In this link You can check if there is an agreement with the country of origin and how it should be done.
These types of pages usually always use the same procedure to defraud users. They are advertised on the Internet, with a mobile phone number as the only way of contact, through which they ask the interested party to send all the complete information (name, surname, ID, date of birth, etc.) in addition to a photograph of the owner and another of the firm.
Once, supposedly, they have verified the authenticity of the data, they send the number of the checking account into which the requested amount must be deposited by bank transfer and, after paying said amount, they disappear without a trace.
They are usually temporary web pages, with Spanish telephone numbers of non-existent holders, which do not allow calls to be received but only data and which, furthermore, are constantly changing so as not to leave traces of their activity.
This type of scam is usually directed, as explained by the DGT, at migrants from third countries who are led to believe that it is possible to obtain a driving license without carrying out any prior examination, so Traffic insists on making it clear that this it is impossible.
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