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Telephone conmen strike again…15-year-old victim relieved of mother’s jewellery
Not everyone gets a call to go down to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to uplift $1M in promotional money, so when a 15-year-old girl heard that her father was that lucky person, she wasn’t going to let anything get in the way.
Not even if the person on the other end of the line asked her to pack all the money and jewellery in a black plastic bag and deliver it to an unknown person.
Two confident tricksters used this scenario to con their victim out of $250,000 worth of jewellery on Tuesday.
According to a Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident, around midday on Tuesday, a male telephoned their home while he and his wife were at work.
The individual spoke with his 17-year-old son and informed the boy that his father won a significant amount of cash. The person gave the teen a reference number and asked that he immediately visit the telephone company.
A few minutes after the teen left his home to go down to the phone company, a female called their phone and spoke with his 15-year-old sister.
“The woman told my daughter that I won one million dollars and that me and my son were at GTT. She (confident trickster) told her to pack all the jewellery and money in a bag and come down to GTT, but before she go to GTT, she should stop at Sussex Street and give the bag to a man on a bicycle,” the seemingly disappointed father related.
He explained that his daughter, after speaking to the woman, took her mother’s jewellery and left home to meet with the man. She eventually met the “man on a bicycle” on the roadway at Sussex Street, Charlestown, and handed over the valuables.
She then continued her journey to the telephone company. When she reached there, she almost suffered a heart attack.
The teen was informed that the telephone company has no such promotion going on and that she had been scammed.
Both she and her brother then related what had transpired to their father.
Persons are being urged to avoid these scam artists. Only last month, a woman was scammed out of $42,000 in phone cards.
If the phone companies have promotions going on, they do not ask for money; they only request the presence of the winner.
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