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2 Calgarians arrested, 5 sought in telemarketing scam

Calgary HeraldOctober 13, 2009Comments (3)


CALGARY- Calgary RCMP's commercial crime unit has charged nine people for their alleged involvement in a cross-border telemarketing scam.


Ibrahim Daud, 45, Kingsley Chimela Odoemena, 34, Jegbefumere Bone Albert, 28, and Nygil Thomas Osayande, 23 have all been arrested for their involvement in the scam.


RCMP have issued Canada-wide arrest warrants for five Calgarians; Albert Valentine Onolunose, 29, Kabiru Julius Odion, 30, Alysia Dawn Mayert, 30, Darlynton Oseah Omolene, 33 and Francis Amankwaa, 27.


Each of the nine individuals have been charged with 29 counts each for various violations of the Criminal Code.


Although the RCMP is not aware of any victims in Alberta or elsewhere in Canada they believe the suspects contacted the victims by letter or phone and told them they had won a lottery but were required to pay taxes and lawyer fees to claim their money. The estimated loss to victims is estimated at more than $3 million.

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sorry, dont know how to post links but this is great news.

To post a link, when you have the site open the page address is in the address bar, if you click on it, then copy and paste into the thread, I can fix it from there if it needs fixing

Brilliant news - Thank You for posting bevking.

http://www.calgarysun.com/news/canada/2009/10/14/11403911-cp.html

Agreed great news, its nice to know there is something being done about it all. sometimes it feels the online scamming business is all getting out of control but news like this shows that the good guys do get the odd win.