An operation by prosecutors and police officers detained the quartet of scammers as part of an international operation in the towns of Hernandarias and Ciudad del Este, in the northeastern Alto Parana Department Parana, the newspaper added.

The agents apprehended the cybercriminals in Paraguay as it was to this country where they transferred the money, stolen in the neighboring country by means of a digital modality known as phishing or identity theft, Prosecutor Irma Llano provided details to the daily.

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