The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is warn­ing cit­i­zens to re­main vig­i­lant as the num­ber of elec­tron­ic fraud cas­es con­tin­ues to rise, de­spite pre­vi­ous pub­lic ad­vi­sories.

In a re­lease, the TTPS re­vealed that its Fraud Squad has re­ceived 48 new re­ports of fraud­u­lent ac­tiv­i­ty since its last ad­vi­so­ry on May 16, 2025.

The unit, part of the White-Col­lar Crime Di­vi­sion, said the in­crease sug­gests that scam­mers are still suc­cess­ful­ly tar­get­ing un­sus­pect­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic.

The re­port­ed in­ci­dents—which fol­low a pat­tern of sus­pi­cious emails and text mes­sages claim­ing that bank ac­counts have been frozen and urg­ing re­cip­i­ents to click a link to re­solve the is­sue—have re­sult­ed in sig­nif­i­cant fi­nan­cial loss­es. These in­clude: TTD $2,836,936.06; USD $81,800.00; and JMD $136,699.00.

The fol­low­ing is a break­down of re­ports by lo­ca­tion:

● Port of Spain Of­fice – 14 re­ports

● South Of­fice – 27 re­ports

● East­ern Di­vi­sion – 4 re­ports

● To­ba­go Di­vi­sion – 3 re­ports

The Head of the Fraud Squad is again urg­ing the pub­lic not to re­spond to any un­so­licit­ed mes­sages or emails claim­ing to be from banks or oth­er fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions.

“Cit­i­zens are ad­vised not to click on any links and in­stead ver­i­fy any such claims in per­son at their re­spec­tive banks,” the TTPS strong­ly rec­om­mends in its ad­vi­so­ry.

In ad­di­tion, the TTPS ad­vi­so­ry en­cour­ages all mem­bers of the pub­lic to “fol­low of­fi­cial poli­cies and safe­ty guide­lines pro­vid­ed by their fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions, in or­der to safe­guard their as­sets and avoid be­com­ing vic­tims of cy­ber-en­abled lar­ce­ny.”