The Fi­nan­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit of Trinidad and To­ba­go (FI­UTT) is warn­ing cit­i­zens about “cer­tain false and mis­lead­ing in­for­ma­tion” it says is be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed by peo­ple claim­ing to be rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the reg­u­la­tor.

In a state­ment, the FI­UTT said that these per­sons were pre­sent­ing “bo­gus let­ters, e-mails, text mes­sages or faxed doc­u­ments” pur­port­ing to be is­sued by the FI­UTT.

“The FI­UTT wish­es to make it clear that the FI­UTT does not charge fees for ser­vices, is­sue clear­ance cer­tifi­cates or seize as­sets of any kind,” the state­ment said, adding, “nor does it com­mu­ni­cate vis text mes­sages or so­cial me­dia.”

It said re­quests for fees or clear­ance cer­tifi­cates or sim­i­lar in­voic­es “made in the name of or on be­half of the FI­UTT are to­tal­ly fake/false”, and that “any­one who is aware of this fraud­u­lent ac­tiv­i­ty should re­port it im­me­di­ate­ly to the po­lice or the FI­UTT.” —(CMC)