The presence of phone and internet scams in the area is prompting advisement from the Weyburn Police Service. They report receiving numerous calls regarding this type of fraud, with some successful and involving sums of money.
Deputy Chief Shane St. John credits some of the issue to scams becoming ever more convincing.
“Frauds again are still going hard, which is unfortunate, maybe it’s just some more training for the public we need to do but even then, they're getting so good at it.”
He stresses that with scams becoming harder to detect, anyone can fall victim to them regardless of age or knowledge.
“It gets everybody, they can pull any age, any person. People that know after the fact are like ‘oh, man I should have known better like how did I not pick up on this?’ They do a really good job of scamming people they really do.”
It is advised that all fraud attempts, successful or otherwise, be reported to the Weyburn Police Service.