In Spain and Portugal, the authorities are investigating so-called “bishop fraud”

Police services in Spain and Portugal are conducting separate investigations into a series of social media scams by netizens impersonating church hierarchs. In the media, the procedure is referred to as so-called “bishop fraud”. According to the Spanish Guardia Civil, one of the victims is the Ordinary of the Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón, Bishop Àngel Javier Pérez Pueyo. According to the leadership of the police formation from the city Article In…