Fraudsters solicit the services of Attorneys in an effort to recover alleged outstanding funds from locally based companies in the TCI
Police are trying to nip a criminal activity in the bud where perpetrators are trying to scam unsuspecting persons out of thousands of dollars by using attorneys to help do their dirty work.
The Criminal Investigations Department of The Royal Turks & Caicos Islands Police Force has issued a media release, advising the business community and local Attorneys of a recent Fraud Trend, where Fraudsters are soliciting the services of Attorneys in an effort to recover alleged outstanding funds from locally based companies in the Turks and Caicos Islands for goods obtained on credit.
Police say the scam involves attorneys being approached by Fraudsters who advise the attorney that the client agrees to settle out of court, payment in the form of cheque(s) would be sent to the Attorney to settle the debt and request that the Attorney deduct their fees before forwarding the balance to them. However the cheque(s) are forged.
The cheque(s) are normally hundreds of thousands of dollars and the Fraudsters would sometime request a percentage of the total cheque(s), prior to the forged cheque(s) been cleared.
The business community and local attorneys are being advised to contact the Police at Tel# 9413327, Financial Crime Unit at Tel # 9414450, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-8477 or Emergency 911 if they have been confronted with this recent Fraud Trend or any of a similar nature.
