CHANNEL ISLANDS SCAM
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has warned that fraudsters are deceiving the customers of Channel Island banks into providing personal banking information by intercepting correspondence and inserting doctored tax collection forms. These counterfeit Form R105's are based on legitimate British Inland Revenue forms, but solicit more details then the originals and have - of course - a fake return address. The ICC's Commercial Crime Bureau warned: "The intent is to provide fraud perpetrators with enough information to siphon funds out of ...
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