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Verify the person’s identity – ask questions that a stranger couldn’t possibly answer call a family member to verify if someone is operating under a different number even if you have been told to keep the story a secret.

The scammer sends a text like this pretending to be the victim's child or their grandchild (Image: Meath Crime Prevention Facebook)

Resist the urge to act immediately, no matter how dramatic the story is.

Do not volunteer information as fraudsters are known to ‘fish’ for facts which they then use to make themselves sound more credible.

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Gardai have this week issued some top tips on how to protect yourself from this type of scam: Gardai are advising the public to be 'wary of unsolicited text messages' from unknown numbers. Read more: Newstalk host Andrea Gilligan subject of catfish scam as conmen fool listeners with '€1,000 prize' The victim of this fraud will then make a direct payment to the fraudster’s account.

The scammer is usually also based in a foreign jurisdiction, and while posing as the person's family member they will ask the person to pay for an urgent medical bill or fine.

The person sending the text message will often pretend to the person's family member such as their child or grandchild. But, like, why would the Canadian government tell me to come here?' she said.Gardai have warned the public to be on the lookout for a 'grandparent scam' that's doing the rounds with the fraudsters using it to steal money from vulnerable people.Īccording to gardai, this scam involves the fraudsters sending a text message posing as a family member saying they need financial help or are in some sort of trouble that needs to be kept secret. 'They're just following their own instructions, and I do respect that. When they arrived the base, however, British soldiers wouldn't let the older woman board without a Canadian visa. Mustafa says Canadian officials were aware that her grandmother - who she described as 'old and frail' - is not a Canadian citizen when they instructed her to flee. Canadian officials knew grandmother's status, she says Grandparents and elderly parents are not included, Global Affairs said. military flight to safety.īut Global Affairs says Canada is only evacuating Canadian citizens and permanent residents along with their immediate family members and dependents - which it defined as spouses, common-law partners, children and other dependents under the age of 22. She says Canadian officials instructed her to take her 75-year-old mother, who is Canadian, and her grandmother, who is not, to a military base outside Khartoum and take a U.K. Catharines, Ont., and moved to Sudan two years ago to care for her elderly family. Now she is one of hundreds of Canadians who have requested help getting out of Sudan since conflict broke out between the Sudanese military and a paramilitary group earlier this month. 'She is our immediate family and we can not leave her,' Mustafa told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

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They watched on Wednesday as a plane full of desperate families took to the sky without them.

Or they could all stay in an increasingly dangerous country, where rival military factions are battling each other in the streets. military plane, and leave her non-Canadian grandmother behind. She could either flee to safety with her mother on a U.K. Safia Mustafa isn't about to abandon her 90-year-old grandmother at a military base in Sudan.īut that was the choice the Canadian woman says she was faced with on Wednesday. As It Happens 5:55 Ontarian trapped in Sudan with elderly grandmother says Canada misled her

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