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Swindler in custody after using ad to fleece victims

Nov 09, 2012 News

A man is in custody at the Providence Police Station after being caught red handed yesterday with marked money he collected from a Diamond resident, under the guise he was from Public Service Co-operative Credit Union Ltd.
Reports reveal that the man used a photocopied version of an advertisement placed in the newspapers last weekend, to gain information about his intended victims’ names, occupations and addresses.
The ad in the Newspaper stated “The following persons, amongst others, whose names will be published, are hereby requested to make contact with the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union Ltd.”
The swindler would then visit various people’s residences and confront them as being a representative of the credit union. He then proposed to his victims that he would be taking them to court, and if they were not in a position to pay, they would be imprisoned for three months.
However, the man would make a proposition to be in the capacity to extract the docket from the court and “duck the charges”. He would then request a fee for his action. This raised the suspicions of one Diamond, East Bank Demerara resident who called in the police. The man was nabbed after he collected several marked thousand-dollar bills.

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