69 persons have been detained by Spanish police on suspicion of being part of a criminal organisation that used an online system for scheduling police appointments and resold the sessions to those seeking asylum and other types of foreign citizenship.
According to the police, the gang’s automated software programme, or “bot,” was able to get over safeguards meant to identify robots, enabling it to schedule “practically all” of the normally free appointments across Spain and resell them for as much as 200 euros ($220) each.
In Spain, anybody applying for asylum or a residency permit must show their documentation to the police, who frequently need lengthy waits. The gang’s leaders established a business that leased the bot read more Spanish police arrest 69 over bot scheme cashing in on asylum seekers.
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