Brandon Police Service has acquired quite a few calls in the present day concerning a telephone rip-off. That is the second time one of these telephone rip-off has occurred in Brandon within the final month. The scammers are calling random folks in Brandon and claiming to be a relative (normally a grandchild or son) and stating that they’ve been concerned in an accident with a pregnant girl. They then persuade the victims to pay massive sums of cash to be able to have the relative launched from jail or to cowl the damages from the accident. The scammers are then sending somebody to the victims’ residences in Brandon to gather the cash. This identical sort of rip-off occurred on the finish of January and a media alert was posted on BPS Fb and Twitter. Nonetheless, the scammers are again in Brandon and defrauding extra harmless victims.
