Greater than TT$2.8 million has been misplaced to digital fraud in Trinidad and Tobago since March 16, 2025, prompting renewed warnings from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) and its Fraud Squad.
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In a launch issued Thursday, the TTPS urged residents to be on excessive alert and to keep away from participating with suspicious emails or textual content messages that declare financial institution accounts have been frozen and immediate recipients to “click on a hyperlink” to resolve the problem.
“The Head of the Fraud Squad is as soon as once more urging members of the general public to not click on on any suspicious hyperlinks or take any motion prompted by unsolicited messages or emails claiming to be from monetary establishments,” the discharge said.
The TTPS mentioned its Fraud Squad White Collar Crime Division first issued a public advisory about this ongoing rip-off on March 16. Regardless of that alert, the division has continued to obtain studies at an alarming fee.
Between March 16 and the current, the Fraud Squad has logged 46 studies of digital fraud throughout its workplaces, with the South Workplace recording the best quantity at 27. The Port of Spain Workplace adopted with 14 studies, whereas the Japanese and Tobago Divisions obtained 4 and three studies, respectively.
The monetary influence of the incidents consists of:
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TTD $2,836,936.06
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USD $81,800.00
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JMD $136,699.00
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Authorities are reminding the general public that monetary establishments don’t sometimes request delicate data or pressing motion through textual content or electronic mail. Residents are strongly suggested to go to their financial institution in individual to resolve any suspicious account exercise.
The TTPS continues to observe the state of affairs and has inspired people to report any suspicious messages or fraudulent transactions to the closest police station.
