Telephone con artists are making rounds in Montana. Numerous complaints have been received by Cascade County Sheriff’s Office in which people have lost their money by being the worst victims as now threat looms at large.
Phone fraudsters are playing different dirty tricks to target the innocent people in Montana .It is revealed crooks are using false tactics like calling any person and pretending to be it’s relative or friend.
The person mentions they are in trouble right now as they have being arrested and requests to wire money mostly through western union or even through online banking or credit card.
On other note most of the time such frauds are also appearing in the face of elderly or grand parent where crooks used someone’s Facebook identity to ask their online friends for money via the Facebook chat tool.
In such case scam artists pretend to be relative or friend and claimed to be robbed or stuck in another country thus conning seniors.
Taking strict note of such crime Montana Attorney General’s office has issued various measures to fight against such frauds.
The agency offers tips and guidelines like people should avoid giving personal and financial information on phone or over internet, even they should avoid wiring money to unknown. They should also notify any such fraud activities to local law enforcement agency.
February 10th, 2011 | Tags: montana, phone scam, phone scam making rounds | Category: Phone | Leave a comment
Scammers love targeting visa seekers. This time scam artists were successful in fooling visa seekers that too in Punjab region of India. But smart action by Delhi police resulted immediate arrests of four master mind involved in Canadian Visa fraud.
These four criminals were smart enough to send sms to Mobile phone users in Punjab mentioning that their Visa has been approved. The trouble began when those who replied them were easy victims as these culprits used to demand heavy some of money .Moreover after money was paid these cheaters used to disappear without providing visa.
The four criminals arrested are Harvinder Singh, Pawan Kumar, Harish Kumar and Anil Arora.
The scam was first flashed out , when one Mandeep Singh, a resident of Jalandhar in Punjab was one of the victim . In police complaint he stated that he had already paid an instalment and had given his passport for Canadian Visa, with the remaining amount to be paid after he got the visa.
But Harvinder Singh intentionally delayed delivery of his passport and asked him to bring the remaining cash for the passport otherwise he would destroy it. Police have recovered the passport, which contains a fake Canadian visa and other forged documents.
According to police these four fraudsters have nearly defrauded around 12 to 15 people .
February 10th, 2011 | Tags: Canadian Visa scam, punjab visa scam, visa scam in india | Category: Visa | Leave a comment
