ONTARIO AND Quebee companies intent on
emptying the wallets of North Shore residents
continue to call,

By Jan Noble
News Reporter

Const. Steve Berney of the North Vancouver
RCMP fraud unit: said firms operating under
many names tell potential fraud victims they have
won it prize, bul must send a cheque to cover

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An elderly Lynn Valley resident complained
she had three calfs recently from avo companies
trying to solied cash fron her,

She said the companies told her she had won
a trip, cash prize and an $8,000 car.

“Ysa icant be much of a car” she said,

‘Fo collect her prize, she bad to send them cash
—- $800 in one case.

Another company asked her to send $1000 tn
two $500 installments.

When she said she did not have that much

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money, the caller told her to use her pension
ebeque.

“How (he hell did: she Kriow 1 was a seaior?”
asked the 70-year-old worn.

She worries other elderly people will send the
companies cash, even though she did not.

“knew be was fraudulent,” she said.

On Monday, Capital Systems asked) a focal
resident for $749 ta cover administration expens-
es tnd GST ont $10,000 bond be bad supposed:
ly won, said Berney,

The resident didn't send the cash,

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