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Willingly accepting counterfeit currency

Dec 23, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
On Wednesday 20, 2017, my niece was travelling to Georgetown on a minibus. She was sitting next to a bulky African guy who was also a passenger in the bus. As they reached the Demerara Harbour Bridge, the man was checking some US which he had in a white big envelope. He pretended to know my niece and formed a conversation asking her about her husband. She told him that he was doing fine.
He asked her if she can change $100 US for him since he has no local currency to pay the bus conductor. He took out a $100 US and asked her to change it. She gave him $20,000 and he gave her the $100 US. In his envelope, he had all these counterfeit about 500. He was so smart that he was enticing people to see it.
Apparently, he had others with him on the lookout for policemen. She was going to Georgetown to do her Christmas shopping not aware that this man was a scammer. As she exited the bus at East Bank Bus Park, the man was left sitting in the bus alone with the bus driver and conductor.
To me this was a planned con by the operators and the con man. My niece went into GBTI Bank to change the foreign currency, and she was told by the cashier that the money was counterfeit.
What I observed since the policemen are all around in Georgetown patrolling, these crooks have moved their con business to West Demerara just before the DHB where passengers are coming from, especially Essequibo Coast.
The Commissioner of Police should take note of this new operation and set up his new dragnet to catch these thieves and hooligans. Passengers travelling on these buses should take warning of these scammers and not to be caught in their acts.
Mohamed Khan.

Editor’s note: The writer’s niece should not have been changing foreign currency since she did not have a licence. Further, people should not be calling on the police to protect people from their own ignorance.

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