A single parent mother of two is warning others to be wary of a scammer who managed to cheat her out of $50,000 in phone credit on the pretext that she had won $1 million through a Bank of Guyana (BoG) and Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) contest.
“I know I can’t get back me money but I just want people to know about this scam and so they can’t fool anybody else,” the woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Stabroek News yesterday.
The woman said her daughter’s phone rang around 9 am on Monday and a man, who identified himself as a “Keith Singh,” supposedly a manager at the BoG, informed her that the child’s number was selected by GTT to be awarded $1 million.
He informed that before she could