Brandon Police receive fraud complaints

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Published on Thursday, July 17, 2014

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The Brandon Police Service has received two complaints over the last two days of a fraud scheme involving social media. 

The scam has previously been used and is known as the “Facebook Prize Scam”.

The victims are contacted through FaceBook by a contact and are advised they have won a prize. The contact person represents himself as an agent, possibly from an insurance company, and provides a phone number of 435-465-1463 and an e-mail address of This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . 

‘Agent Dave’ then asks for personal information to be sent to the phone number via text messaging.  The information required to collect the winnings includes: name, home address, e-mail, age, date of birth, marital status, next of kin, annual income, and career. 

Once this information is sent, ‘Agent Dave’ then sends a ticket number as reference and advises the victim has to pay $1,000 to claim the winnings.

For more information on this and other frauds, visit the Canadian Anti-Fraud Center.

Report any suspicious messages to Facebook Security at http://www.facebook.com/report

With files from Brandon Police Service release