Canada, increasingly the source of fraud in the USA seniors.
Canadian telemarketers past two years beschwindelnd Walter Blevins of Arkansas City, Kan., out of $ 300000 _ saving his life.
The fraudsters told first almost 78 years, former employee of the aircraft, it would have earned $ 2.2 million in a lottery. Just over cash to cover taxes and other charges to windward.
Over time, his daughter is shocked intervened, his money was far, and nobody could help. This is not the police, Kansas Attorney General, the FBI, the Federal Trade Commission _ not even the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
“It is quite lazy Deal”, the eldest Blevins, said recently. “You think you won the jackpot once in your life, and they own. I gave them money as a damned fool.”
But investigators say Blevins is no more crazy that thousands of other seniors covered by telemarketing fraud dreiste origin outside the USA, increasingly in Canada.
The many games, lotteries, Shop-at-Home, Verification and incidental expenses in advance, frauds are so pervasive that the authorities classify now under the roof of the “cross-border fraud.
The debt of the sharp increase in differences in court, law and foreign mild savvier fraudsters.
“He (Blevins), was misled by very clever criminals,” said Eileen Harrington of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
USA work closely with officials in Canada and other countries for the implementation of telecommunications, joint investigations marketing increasingly complex. But investigators admitted in interviews with the Kansas City Star, just as exploitation of the line.
Last year, the FTC has received reports on:
_95, 249 cases of cross-border fraud, compared to 86886 in 2005. More than 25 percent involved fraudulent Canadian.
_ $ 141 million in cross-border fraud losses to victims in the USA. More than $ 93 million Canadian lost in Scams, an increase of almost 50 percent since 2005.
“It is (Cross-Border-fraud) to a boiling point now,” said Don Obritsch, an auditor of fraud for the U.S. Postal Service in Kansas City. “I have never seen worse as it is true that now. ”
And he can not improve soon.
AARP is a growing threat because more baby boomers to age, creating a huge reservoir of potential victims. No less than 75 million Americans because of his tour while 60
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