Scammers use stolen identities to enjoy expensive beauty clinic sessions on Spain’s Costa Blanca

FIVE people accumulated €12,000 in bills at a beauty clinic in Alicante but paid nothing thanks to identity theft.

The four women and one man enjoyed first-class cosmetic and beauty treatments, but showed clinic staff identification documents with a different name and address who would be billed through a finance company.

The Spaniards, between the ages of 20 and 45, have been charged with five counts of fraud so far.

The victims only found out what had happened when the financial companies that financed the sessions sent them demands for payment.

One of the impersonated people denounced the National Police, who discovered that it was not an isolated incident.

Investigations led them to a gang that specialized in fraud, document forgery and identity theft.

At least five identities had been usurped and investigations are still ongoing.