SPANISH SWINDLE AGAIN.
THE PUBLIC WARNED. (By Telegraph.—l'ress Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Government has received through the Colonial Office a warning from the Consular authorities in Spain regarding the operations of a gang who perpetuate a fraud known as the "Spanish swindle." The methods vary in detail, but the principal features are always €he same. The swindlers usually write to some person representing that a political prisoner in Spain, either dying or dead, has left by will valuables or property to his distant relatives, sometimes by the prisoner to his daughter, who is left with her property to the guardianship of relatives. If the bait takes bogus legal or official documents are forwarded, followed by a request for money to enable possession of the estate to be gained. Needless to Bay, if money is sent nothing more is heard of it. The Consular authorities have reason to believe the gang is turning its attention to the colonies, and advise the public to be warned. The whole affair is a tnuuoannt fraud.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 1 April 1905, Page 5
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