Philipsburg:--- Residents of St. Maarten/St. Martin are asked to be aware of some con artists (scammers) that are focusing on people living on the island. According to information reaching SMN News, someone has been contacting people by telephone on the island telling them that they won a huge amount of money as a prize. The caller told at least one person that the money can only be accessed if they transfer monies to them through the money transfer agencies on the island. The caller went on to tell the person whom he called a number of times that the only way to access the funds and to complete the transfer to his or her bank account is to send the required sum through Money Gram. The caller is also asking for personal information such as bank account numbers and other personal information. Further checks on the caller's telephone number showed the caller is calling from Nigeria.
Nigerian criminals are known for their fraudulent attempts to lure people into transferring money to their bank accounts based on false stories. Sometimes these stories are well prepared and people tend to believe them. All over the world tens of thousands of people have become victim of these embezzlers. It appears as though the scammers are focusing heavily on the St. Maarten community.
The country code for Nigeria starts with -2348-. Besides the phone contact, residents, and business people are being contacted through the internet. Residents are advised not to transfer any money to unknown accounts, not to provide unknown persons with bank account numbers or any private personal information whatsoever.
It is likely that large criminal organizations with an East African origin are behind these fraudulent attempts to steal money from people.
St. Martin News Network
Tuesday
Jun 18th
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:48 )
Comments (18)
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11-01-2012 17:15 |Unregistered| Hold up one minute!!!!!
If it sounds too good to be true then it is obviously NOT true.
People, stop being greedy. Save your money and build up a nice little nest egg instead of letting people rip you off.
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12-01-2012 02:14 |Unregistered| Breaking Wind
Have they come here to learn some tricks from our Government Ministers?
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12-01-2012 02:36 |Unregistered| SxM
We have a big one here fooling the people everyday on a radio. Nobody saying nothing about that one ........
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12-01-2012 03:48 |Unregistered| True
Be really CAREFUL they are slick...the biggest scammers you can find comes from NIGERIA. and they are everywhere.
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12-01-2012 06:51 |Unregistered| lol
The hilarious bit is that people are stupid enough to fall for it! People nothing is free in this world!
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12-01-2012 14:16 |Unregistered| marriage
Persons abroad even socall fall in love with persons here and asks that person here to keep sending them money to be able to buy a ticket to come here to marry them. Marriage hungry candidates I must say ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
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12-01-2012 15:13 |Unregistered| miami
This thing with the Nigerians is big, people in the states has lost millions of dollars already so i am saying to my people in SXM be careful
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12-01-2012 17:01 |Unregistered| yea
yea they called saying i winn 10000 grand from cocacola company AND I NEED TO SEND 1 GRAND TO THEM TO SEND ME THE MONEY , I TOLD HIM TO GO S...K HE SELF , CAUSE I KNOW IT SOME FAKE SH...T
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12-01-2012 17:59 |Unregistered| DISGRACEFUL
oyu remember they are MANY LIVING HERE AMONG US
THE STATUE MAN ON FRONT STREET
PEOPLE BE AWARE OF THE GHOST IN THE CLOSET
RIGHT HERE IN OYU MOUTH !!!!!
WATCH ALL THOSE STATUES ALL OVER THE ROUND THE BOUTS
FRONT STREET AFRICAN MAN
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13-01-2012 00:20 |Unregistered| open your eyes
GOV :WILL NEVER WATCH THAT AFRICAN MAN ON STREET IS. BECAUSE HE IS GOV:VOODOO MAN....THAT MAN IS THE GHOST IN THE CLOSET...I DON'T WHAT WE THE LOCAL GIRLS SEE ON THAT GHOST ...IS BECAUSE SOME LITTLE DOLLARS ...SET STUPID YOUNG GIRLS
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13-01-2012 03:00 |Unregistered| VOODOOOO
oyu remember they are MANY LIVING HERE AMONG US
THE STATUE MAN ON FRONT STREET
PEOPLE BE AWARE OF THE GHOST IN THE CLOSET
RIGHT HERE IN OYU MOUTH !!!!!
WATCH ALL THOSE STATUES ALL OVER THE ROUND THE BOUTS
FRONT STREET AFRICAN MAN
VOODOOOO
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13-01-2012 04:17 |Unregistered| SXMner
They have been targeting St Martin since at least 1996. I used to receive the letters by fax, then by email, now they stepped it up and are calling.
Hackers sold fax numbers in the past, then email addresses now with the facebook boom in Sxm, they sell our names DOB addresses, phone numbers etc.... Beware what you post online. Identity theft is next.
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13-01-2012 07:53 |Unregistered| Lets Make a Deal
Flip the con on them people, inform them, just to confirm the validity of the Issue, kindly transfer $100.00 into your account.
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13-01-2012 07:54 |Unregistered| st.maartener
they also fool you tel u they sending you a package with a lot of money in it but you have to send some money for them so they can get the package cleared and you will be forever sending money to clear this package the more you send the more they want . beware of them if you need for yourself how can you send for them
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They're back at it again. People got hit in the past and should learn from this.