514-655-9866

The person calling from this number is a SCAMMER!! A man by the name of Albert Mitchell called a family member of mine stating that I was in jail & needed to be bailed out. There are a couple people that all work together to do this. They pretend to be family members that have been in terrible accidents or in jail needing money to be transfered to Canada (Quebec) - The person that you speak with will tell you that money is needed to bail them out of jail & not to tell anyone else in the family. They wait for you to use a family memeber's name & then they will say that they are calling in regards to that person. Whether it be a son, daughter, grand-daughter, grand-son, etc. Hang up!! Do not transfer any money with out verifying the identity of the person that you are speaking with. If the person on the other line is claiming to be one of your family members ask them questions that only your family members would know. They make up some believable stories. And if you didn't fall for their scam - INFORM your family and friends so that they don't fall for it. When you call the number back they answer everytime & they say: Law Offices - That's it. No names of attornies or anything. Unfortunately, my family member was hard of hearing & thought she was actually speaking to me. When in reality she was speaking w/ a complete stranger from Canada. BTW: They will ask you to transfer money through WESTERN UNION - WESTERN UNION FRAUD DEPT is completely useless. So, good luck trying to get them to investigate on their own or notify the employees at the branch in which the money was picked up at that the man picking it up is ripping off tons of AMERICANS everyday.

Scam - If U receive a call from a number w/ a Quebec area code & you don't know anyone in Canada... HANG UP!! They will request that U transfer money through WESTERN UNION. They make up stories stating that one of your loved ones has been in an accident or is in jail. NEVER SEND MONEY through WESTERN UNION unless you are absolutely 100% sure that you are sending it to the person you intend to send it to. They have many different names that they use & they will attempt to rush you into transferring money to help your loved one. Call your family members & verify that the story is correct. Who knows how much $$$ these people made today 03/16/10 - When I called their number back which is a cell phone, the voicemail box was completely full & not accepting any more messages.

My neighbor received a phone call from this number.  A woman by the nake Jamie Lawrence said that my wife was in jail.  She had been in an accident near Niagera Falls and arrested for DUI.  They told him not to mention this to me as it might upset her husband.  He was asked to mail $500.oo because a Judge Michael Crystal in Ontario said it was needed to release the arrested party.  He mailed the money without knowing about this scam.  He phoned the number back to see if they got the money and was told that they found out an additional $2500.00 was needed because a telephone pole had been damaged in the accident and that the money had to be paid before the arrested party would be let out of jail.  He informed them that he didn't have any more money and hung-up.

Western Union was notified but they are playing "dumb" in claiming they know nothing about such a scam.  We in Indiana feel that Western Union is as much the blame as the scam artists as they have no disclaimer on their paperwork.  They are named by the scammers thus they should be charged for not trying to block this through their electronic program in sending payments.

I received a phone call from this number.  A woman by the name Jamie Lawrence said that my neighbors wife was in jail.  She had been in an accident near Niagera Falls and arrested for DUI.  They told him not to mention this to my neighbor  as it might upset him.  I was asked to mail $500.oo because a Judge Michael Crystal in Ontario said it was needed to release the arrested party.  I mailed the money without knowing about this scam.  I phoned the number back to see if they got the money and was told that they found out an additional $2500.00 was needed because a telephone pole had been damaged in the accident and that the money had to be paid before the arrested party would be let out of jail.  I informed them that I didn't have any more money and hung-up.

In the meantime I found that this phone number belongs to a “throw-away”  cell phone and most of the calls are transmitted in and around Jolicoreur Savard Assurance in Montreal, Canada.  Either in this building or one of the apartment buildings next to it.

Western Union was notified but they are playing "dumb" in claiming they know nothing about such a scam.  We in Indiana feel that Western Union is as much the blame as the scam artists as they have no disclaimer on their paperwork.  They are named by the scammers thus they should be charged for not trying to block this through their electronic program in sending payments.
Western Union should be held responsible and a Class Action Law Suite filed against them for the loss of funds by all.

I received such a phone call shortly I had surgery so I wasn't tracking the best. I was napping in bed when a very distraught, sobbing young man claiming by name to be my nephew called me and told me that he had been in a bad auto accident with others (I even thought at first that there were fatalities) and that the police had found a pile of illegal drugs in the trunk and that he is being held in another country for drug trafficking.

Behind him is what sounds like a muffled conference room and he sounds very distraught. He tells me that his parents are away on a cruise (which they do each year at the same time to celebrate on their anniversary and I knew that) and he can't get to them and that I am the only person he can go to. (The thieves have obviously targeting me and have done considerable online research about the family to make the dialogue very realistic.) The "nephew" sounds terrified and so upset that he is incoherent and says that he "does not do drugs and never has, but that he took a trip with a friend who told him that he had won a trip and later hooked up with others." The nephew claims to be innocent and that he had no drugs on him and that he was tested for drugs and proved clean.

The "Officer Reilly" cuts him off and tells me that by law he was allowed only one phone call and that was it. Reilly tells me that he was picked up in Lima with known drug traffickers but was found to have no drugs and did indeed test negative for drugs ("and they can check for months back and he was clean") and makes it apparent that the nephew seems innocent but is still being charged with a major crime in a foreign country where he knows no one else. I am told that if I send bail money and he testified against the drug traffickers he will be allowed to return to the US. Reilly and the nephew actor are SUPER SLICK--the nephew sounded so terrified that in retrospect he might have had a gun to his head or have been in the last stages of heroin withdrawal (more likely). I am told to Western Union $3800 in my nephew's name ASAP (they even look up my phone number and suggest local supermarket WU outlets nearby to help me out). These guys are very adept with phones and computers and may even have a sound lab behind them--after I was told the call was from the Lima embassy I could almost make out faint Spanish sounds in the background. I wanted to help out my brother thinking that I would want him to do the same for my children.

They give me a phone # (later found to be in Quebec, not Peru and sadly I was not feeling well enough to think to check it since everything else seemed to fall into place) to call after giving Western Union cash to send in my nephew's name. (They must have fake ID at other end, and I think that WU must have insiders as well who allow for easy pickup...) I also think that they must have people in financial institutions checking out cash advance allowances and bank account balances even before the call is made--targeting is very well-conceived and this is apparently a large international ring with high-level actors working with variable scripts. I was also told that I would have to talk to the court-appointed attorney, a Mr. Larry Goldman. When I called Goldman another man answered transferred the call back to the "conference room" where I got not Mr. Goldman, but "Dave Reilly" (the diligent cop only looking out for the welfare of young Americans) who assured me that things went well and that processing was nearly done. He called me a little while later to assure me that everything was okay and that my nephew would be calling me very soon (never happened).

This is a very, very sophisticated operation and the people who are duped are not necessarily doddering, feeble, hard-of-hearing seniors. Everything is tailored seamlessly because they have already done their homework. If it is the Mafia, they have come a long way into the digital world and no longer engage in shootouts in speakeasies--this scenario is worthy of a TV show because it is so slick.

And the last person is right--there is no disclaimer on the WU paperwork. My son called that night and I told him what happened and he told me to immediately contact the police, which I did. I went back to where I sent the money and there was a leaflet about fraud in the back of the form holder, but it was hidden so far away that it would not be seen unless you were specifically looking for it. I do think that WU should be legally challenged on this--maybe to the point of requiring clerks to repeat a standard verbal warning when large amounts are sent out of the country.

I feel very vulnerable now and realize that there really are scummy, evil people out there scheming to get you in very subtle ways.

I just want to add that I did not get a phone call from the number above, but rather another number which proved to be a Quebec exchange. When I called the number later it had been disconnected and I got an operator's message in French.

Been getting scam calls from 514 655 5375 they are asking for money to be sent.  they say that my relative is in Rome Italy and has been arrested and needs money to get out of jail.... they are targeting my 80 year old Aunt and playing on her emotion.  Someone called back saying they were a Sargent Madres and that our relative was very scared.  SCAM!!!

This happened to us today.  They called my 74 y/o father trying to scam him into thinking my 30 y/o nephew was caught with a small amount of drugs in Lima, Peru and would be help for 6 weeks if he did not get down there right away and pay the $2,500.  They had an pretty good scam going with someone acting as my nephew and another as a US Embassy Official.  They somehow know information they shouldn't, most likely they are monitoring facebook and other channels.  Luckily my Dad caught on to the scam, so when the guy called back to see where the money was, my Dad let him know that he knew it was a scam, they tried to hold it up for a minute then they hung up.