Advocates for the homeless and people with substance use disorder are calling it deplorable: a scam police in Barre, Vermont say uses members of those…
Advocates for the homeless and people with substance use disorder are calling it deplorable: a scam police in Barre , Vermont say uses members of those vulnerable populations to rip off businesses—hundreds or thousands of dollars at a time.
Then, the investigator said the scammers recruit a homeless person or someone battling opioid use disorder to cash the phony checks for them. Pontbriand said the scheme appears to have been on the increase in recent weeks across Vermont, adding that financial institutions across the state have been ripped off to the tune of about $36,000 in recent weeks.
Moulton said via phone that while she and her colleagues were not familiar with the scheme until Barre police and necn brought it to the community’s attention, she noted that low-income people have been taken advantage of by drug dealers in other ways—such as using their residences as centers for local drug distribution.
Rachel Feldman with the Vermont State Employees Credit Union joined the police in urging account holders of any bank or credit union to closely monitor their accounts online.
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