{"id":24192,"date":"2019-02-13T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=24192"},"modified":"2019-02-13T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:54:40","slug":"police-warn-of-new-fraud-scheme-in-trinidad-and-tobago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/police-warn-of-new-fraud-scheme-in-trinidad-and-tobago\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn of \u201cnew fraud scheme\u201d in Trinidad and Tobago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The<\/g> Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is warning of a \u201cnew fraud scheme\u201d involving the use of fraudulent cheques drawn on the accounts of various financial institutions and government departments.<\/p>

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The police said that they have arrested eight people and have laid 42 fraud related charges against them for activities from January 1 to February 8 this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police said that the charges range from uttering forged valuable securities to obtaining money by false pretences and money laundering.<\/p>

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\u201cThey arose from instances where fraudsters obtained copies of cheques drawn from universities, insurance companies and government department accounts and replaced them to create a new fraudulent cheque which reflects a new payee, sum, date and scanned copy of genuine signatures,\u201d the police said in a statement.<\/p>

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It said under the \u201cnew fraud scheme\u201d, the fraudsters \u201cthen incite genuine customers to deposit the cheques into their accounts for a small financial reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe funds are then withdrawn from the accounts via the ATM or other counter transactions before the cheques are discovered to be fraudulent\u201d.<\/p>

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The police are urging businesses to \u201cconduct regular audits on cheque books whether in use or not to minimise, if not eliminate this\u2026scheme\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is warning of a \u201cnew fraud scheme\u201d involving the use of fraudulent cheques drawn on the accounts of various financial institutions and government departments. 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