Home » Chatham-Kent Local News » Citizen Reminder
Citizen Reminder
Recently, a citizen reported that she received
three phone calls from people purporting to be Cogeco representatives. Each caller informed the citizen that she had won a free trip to Florida and the Caribbean and asked for her personal information. The citizen did not provide any information to the callers
and contacted Cogeco to determine if the calls were legitimate and found they were not. All three calls originated from different locations – Tampa Florida, Montreal Quebec, and Toronto Ontario. The Chatham-Kent police remind citizens
never to give personal information to strangers. If you believe the call is suspicious, contact the police immediately.
Brian
October 5, 2011 at 11:18 pm
I love that everyone says “If this happens call the cops”.
They just say “nothing we can do” and hang up on you. I tried calling about the Microsoft Scams I got 3 times in a row. That’s the response I got from CKPD, OPP, and the RCMP fraud line.
South Kent Voter
October 6, 2011 at 12:58 am
I would say the local police DID do something — they issued a press release warning people like you about the scam. Beyond that, what would you like to see done? Fly a squad of Chatham-Kent detectives to Nigeria or Tampa or Montreal to investigate, maybe find & arrest somebody and spend the next three years extraditing them to Canada to face a week in jail? It’s a lot cheaper and easier if you just hang-up on these con men when they call you, or delete the emails they send you.
BrandonH
October 6, 2011 at 8:08 am
Agreed. I was given the same response. I dragged the conversation with the scammers on for 15 minutes to the point where I got them to admit it was a scam, they told me how they make money on it, how much they scam from each person, how they make their calls and what exactly they do to a persons computer. I took it upon myself to find the phine computer they lease their numbers that they cal from and called their fraud division who told me the authoritues need to send them a request to release the information. The RCMP didn’t want any of the information that I told them I had.
jp
October 6, 2011 at 9:50 am
This is where people have to be willing to fight back. with out the help of the police. if you are tired of this. screw with them. if they call you and tell you that you have won a trip to cancun, act really excited! and when they ask you for your personal take forever to find you info, and after keeping them on the phone for as long as you can just hang up on them or wait untill they hang up one you. in the time they have wasted with you you may have helped someone from getting scammed. i do this with phone scammers as well as email scammers, there is a tonne of infor on the web that just deals with screwing with scammers. its fun for the whole family, and you feel good when you know you could have saved someone else from bweing victimized.