MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Jail records show a Cuban national living near Cutler Bay is facing four felony charges and an immigration hold after sheriff’s deputies say he used trickery to scam a woman out of $1,000 in a “spoof call” scheme.
Investigators with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s 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 “deceptive 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.”
An MDSO report states that Sanchez, 33, “utilized fear and urgency” in order to get the woman to send him $1,000 via Zelle, claiming that the digital payment service was “a way to curtail and prevent fraud.”…