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Fake texts impersonate Civil Guard to Urda victims' families

The Integrated Data Center warned that fake text messages are impersonating the Civil Guard to announce identifications to families of victims of the Urda rail…

--- The context --- Families searching for loved ones after the rail accident in Urda, in Toledo, are enduring grief and uncertainty while the identification process remains under way. Added to that wait is now a deception aimed directly at them, with messages that pretend to be an official notification about their deceased relatives. --- The facts --- The Integrated Data Center warned on Thursday that relatives of possible deceased victims are receiving text messages in which the Civil Guard supposedly informs them that the bodies of their loved ones have been identified. The body denied the authenticity of those communications and issued the warning through the Communication Office of the High Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha. In its communication, the body recalled that notification of identifications to relatives is carried out exclusively in person and personally by the Civil Guard, never through telephone calls. It therefore asked those possibly affected not to believe either text messages or calls received with that supposed content. According to the latest toll cited, the accident has left 69 dead. --- The positions --- The official position is clear and protective of families: only in-person, personal communication counts, and any telephone notice announcing an identification must be treated as false. That simple rule seeks to prevent a fraudulent message from being mistaken for a real notification at an especially delicate moment, and it urges caution toward any information that does not come through official channels. --- What remains unknown --- The Integrated Data Center has not specified how many relatives received the messages, who is behind them, or whether the texts contain links, requests for data or requests for money. Nor has it said whether a specific investigation was opened to determine the origin of the communications. Meanwhile, forensic medicine and Scientific Police teams continue with autopsies and identification work, which has continued uninterrupted since yesterday with the greatest possible rigor and speed. --- Unanswered questions --- How many relatives received these fake text messages? Who is behind the deception and what was its purpose? Do the messages contain links, requests for data or requests for money? Has a specific investigation been opened into their origin? --- EPM analysis --- The Integrated Data Center was set up on Wednesday after the national protocol for forensic medicine and Scientific Police action in multiple-victim events was activated. That arrangement coordinates the examination of bodies, the collection and comparison of samples, the identification of the deceased and the communication of results to their relatives, a process that requires the utmost checks before any confirmed identification is communicated. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, deceiving families who are waiting for a loved one to be identified is a cruelty that exploits the moment of greatest vulnerability, and the institutional response is right to offer a rule that can be checked in seconds: no identification is ever communicated by telephone. That clarity protects families against fraud and also protects trust in the forensic procedure, which needs rigor rather than haste. What remains is to find who sent the messages, how many people received them and whether they sought data, money or confusion.
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