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17/06/2013 2:07 pm
Hi all.
We just received the following message via Money Advice Scotland:
Carrington Dean have reported that one of their clients have been contacted, via telephone, by a person stating that they worked for Carrington Dean and that they held funds for the client. The individual gave the name of an existing member of staff at Carrington Dean for authentication. They then proceeded to inform the client that they had a cheque for them for £10,000 in backdated interest which would be delivered to the client's address within 2 hours. The client was instructed to pay £100 to the courier on arrival to receive the cheque. Carrington Dean has no knowledge of who this individual is or what organisation they are working for. Can you please cascade this to your organisation and make your clients aware that if they do receive a call like this it is a scam and to report it to the DAS Administrator.
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17/06/2013 2:48 pm
Cheers TDA
Quite scary really. I'll pass it on to staff here just in case.
Mark
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Topic starter
17/06/2013 3:28 pm
I guess it's just a variety of the classic scam where you're promised something huge in return for something much smaller.
Credit to the firm concerned for bringing it to light. There's no shortage of financial firms that seem to try to bury this kind of news rather than alerting competitors and consumers to something important.
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