Minnesota Department of Public Safety: “Jamaica Scams Parts 1 and 2″
May.09, 2010 in
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Scammers from Jamaica are targeting vulnerable people in the United States. WCCO Television in the Twin Cities followed law enforcement officials from Minnesota, the United States and Jamaica as they raided scam operations in Jamaica.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
OMG… me and my mom who’s almost 90 have been getting calls from these jerks in Jamaica for about 2 weeks now… saying we’ve won 3.5 million dollars but we’d have to send them $350 for insurance to receive the money. They won’t stop calling.. today, November 2, they called 10 times and threatened to come and shoot us. Had the cops here and reported the incident. Don’t what more to do.. gonna call verizon tomorrow and see if I can block Jamaica’s 876 area code.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 am
this is the direct result of out of control corporatism in that our current system creates few “affluent” areas in the world and the rest is left desperate. of course there are desperate people with integrity who would never steal from seniors but if there was more even distribution of wealth created from exploited resources this kind of thing would be a lot less common.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 3:15 am
How do you figure they got your number to begin with?
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November 4th, 2009 at 2:39 am
This happens in uk too.
My mothers elderly friend lost about 400k.
She was in the process of buying another home and from sale of previous home put all her money into a dodgy off shore account, nigerian scam it transpired.
She is now homeless and broke aged 76.
Living with her dead beat daughter on a sofa.Very sad.
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November 4th, 2009 at 8:55 am
it’s about time our viking bloodlines wake the fuck up. beat these faggot jamaican stick-twig losers to a fucking pulp if they come here. “kill them all”-metallica.
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November 7th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
TheNewMusicNetwork, stop it. They guys who did this scam shit sucked, but you are shttfacing everyone as a result of a fringe group–that is bullshit. Don’t get me wrong, I love Metallica, like you love them and i respect the Viking, but I cannot accept this hat stuff. Look there is good and bad in every group (even the Ngrians did some sht like this.. some British, Russian, Australian and some Aisans). I am Jamaican man. I respect your position, but chill man “nothing else Matters” -metallica
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November 13th, 2009 at 7:20 am
you can`t blame all jamaicans for the actions of a few
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November 20th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
HOW SCAMMERS GET YOUR NUMBER:
some U.S. companies like insurance companies, phone companies or just a on-line business will hire customer service operators located in international countries like India, Nigeria, Jamaica etc. because its cheaper. So when your talking to a operator you might think they are in the U.S. They ask you for your name and number to verify your call(stand procedures). These operators will then sell your information to the local scammers for a fee….
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November 22nd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
lol i hope a scammer calls me i am bored and would love to mess with them
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December 7th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
If you’re bored here’s one of the numbers: 876-967-5430
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December 24th, 2009 at 10:07 am
(876)-866-0826
Unleash hell.
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December 30th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
8768601318
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January 7th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Greed!, you cannot cheat an honest man.
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January 26th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Very true. But the few (although the vast 876 numbers out there don’t sound like a few) sure as hell give the rest a bad name.
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February 7th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Damn…whats America’s name then?
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February 11th, 2010 at 12:46 am
Minnesota, Texas needs your help bad. Tell somone here in our state what you are doing. PLEASE
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February 13th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
here is another phone number 876-366-3640
he goes by mark ashley they have a po box in center point texas
fbi knows about this but they will do nothing minnesota help the state of texas
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February 23rd, 2010 at 5:39 pm
I just got a call from Jamacia…claimed to be from homeland security and that I needed to “go along and send the money the sweepstake fraud wanted to release the prize”…please people don’t do anything like this! In the USA, you must never need to pay for any kind of prize you win!
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February 28th, 2010 at 10:51 am
violent is an understatement. My father was going to give them the money until my husband and I stepped in. They then called my husbands phone number many times threatening to kill him. The number is 876-297-3827. What is unusual is that he also got a call from a number in New Jersey (apparently it’s a LAN line). The NJ number is 973-855-3171.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 8:04 am
876-571-5101
numerous calls from this number
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April 5th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
well done my brothers. ur late though i done this 9years ago lol
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April 8th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
can you go to cyprus and austria and get back the money they stole out of my barclays bank account?
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April 29th, 2010 at 7:52 am
@RubiconJohn ” if there was more even distribution of wealth” Sad you do not understand economics.
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May 6th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
the American disease of greed is how this scam works. the age old adage “of it sounds too good to be true…” I had a Nigerian price want to deposit $30 million in my bank account! should I give him my info???
PT Barnum said it best “There is a sucker born every minute”
the only reason the govt will protect is because they take 1/2 of a persons money when they die….inheritance tax. Worse than any Jamaican scammers.
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