Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 7

ICE Returns Money to Elderly Victim of Telemarketing Scam

RENO, Nev. – ICE agents on March 15 returned $2,300 to a 78-year-old woman victimized by telemarketing con artists operating out of Canada.

After presenting Carol Magnies of Sparks, Nev., with her check, John Colledge, ICE’s Resident Agent-in-Charge in Reno, warned the community to be on their guard about these scams, which have bilked people – especially senior citizens in the United States – out of tens of millions of dollars.

The returned money – a fraction of the $85,000 Carol Magnies believes she lost – was recovered by investigators as part of Project COLT – a multi-agency U.S.-

Canada initiative targeting telemarketing fraud. The enforcement effort involves ICE, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

Each year, Canadian-based fraudulent telemarketers generate hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from fictitious scams by specifically targeting U.S. citizens. Scammers identify themselves as lawyers, Customs officials, police officers or lottery company officials, falsely telling victims they have won large sums of money and that the winnings will be released only after payment of service charges, taxes, duties and other transfer costs.

Canadian telemarketing fraud can be reported by contacting ICE at 1-866-DHS-2ICE or PHONEBUSTERS at (888) 495-8501 or www.phonebusters.com.

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