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Raton flower shops are the latest victims of a Nigerian phone scam, the New Mexico Attorney General’s office announced Tuesday.
Instead of using e-mail to contact their victims, the culprits are using Text Telephone (TTY) lines, a phone system for the hearing-impaired. They placed large orders and request to “over-pay” the shops so money can be wired via Western Union money transfers to the shipper, according to AG spokesman Phil Sisneros.
“The AG’s office received reports last month from Albuquerque and Santa Fe area restaurants who were hit by another version of the overpayment scam,” Sisneros wrote in an email Tuesday. Sisneros did not indicate how much money was involved in the fraudulent orders, or how many businesses were targeted.
The calls originated in Nigeria.
TTY is also sometimes called a Telecommunication Device for the Deaf (TDD).
