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Monday, February 17, 2025

Two more scammed during social media transactions

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Kejan Haynes
31 days ago
20250117

Kenneth Cheung

Ke­jan Haynes

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dents of scam­mers us­ing so­cial me­dia to find vic­tims. In the most re­cent in­ci­dent, a 32-year-old Ch­agua­nas man drove to Barataria, on Thurs­day to meet some­one he met on Face­book to buy pow­er wash­ers.

The man told po­lice he went to East­ern Main Road near a gas sta­tion, where he was con­tact­ed via phone call by some­one claim­ing to be the sell­er, in­struct­ing him to pick up a man, iden­ti­fied as the sell­er's son.

Af­ter pick­ing up the man, the vic­tim hand­ed over $6,400 cash.

The man got out of the vic­tim's car and walked in­to a near­by build­ing, promis­ing to re­turn short­ly with the pow­er wash­ers but nev­er re­turned.

The vic­tim tried call­ing the sell­er sev­er­al times but was un­suc­cess­ful.

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent on Jan­u­ary 6, a 37-year-old Long­denville man who ad­ver­tised hav­ing a Jacuzzi for sale on Face­book was con­tact­ed by some­one who claimed to be in­ter­est­ed in buy­ing the item.

The man was vis­it­ed by some­one claim­ing to be an em­ploy­ee of the per­son in­ter­est­ed in buy­ing the Jacuzzi.

A pho­to of what ap­peared to be the re­ceipt of a bank trans­fer was sent to the vic­tim, con­vinc­ing him that mon­ey for the item was paid, as the sus­pect left with the Jacuzzi af­ter load­ing it on­to a van.

How­ev­er, when the vic­tim vis­it­ed two Ch­agua­nas banks on Tues­day, he was told that no trans­fers were made to his ac­count.

Both in­ci­dents, po­lice said are con­sid­ered Lar­ce­ny Trick, which us­es de­cep­tion to ob­tain some­one else's prop­er­ty or cash.

Un­der the Lar­ce­ny Act, some­one con­vict­ed of the of­fence can face a fine of $10,000 or ten years in prison.


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