How to Spot the Jamaican Switch Scam
Scam artists are in the news it seems every single day for taking advantage of unsuspecting and often trusting people, these frauds are however preventable. If a person knows what to look for, they can discriminate when a fraud is taking place. One common and preventable fraud is the Jamaican switch scam.
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Realize that if something feels wrong or suspicious, it probably is. That sounds a bit odd but most people know on a subconscious level when a situation is "off."
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Understand that money and strangers are never a good combination. If a stranger has a proposition involving money no matter how innocent it seems it is often not something for a prudent person to be involved in.
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Beware of the lost stranger. In the Jamaican switch, the perpetrator is often fraudulently posing as a stranger lost in the city. This person often says they are from another country.
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Take heed of the hapless victim. The Jamaican switch scam often involves a person pretending to have just been part of a scam themselves. This is intended to invoke sympathy for the so-called victim.
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Be cognizant of any persons or "strangers" with large cash settlements that are in trouble. Often people running the Jamaican switch will run in teams. When the original person engages a "mark" or victim, they then appeal to another "stranger" and this stranger usually has official letterhead pertaining to a large cash settlement that they cannot access.
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Appreciate that charity is sometimes not a good thing. The Jamaican switch relies on the charitable heart of the target. The intended money or scam will often be tied to charitable acts for the homeless or underprivileged.
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scammed
Dec 31, 2009
Jamaican, scams in Kansas' mike Anderson , Bill Clinton etc and other fictous names used by these scam artist claim you ara the winner of 750,000 dollars, then later upgrade you to 2.5 million dollars. but along the way you will need to money gram thousands of dollars to them to clear the money gettiung into the u.s., then set up fictious delivery times which are never met because they run into snags that will require more mony tobe money gramed to Jamaica , this will go on as long as the sucker pays, and still no winner money arrives.
