Juan Lozano of Associated Press reports that scammers have obtained the personal information of unaccompanied young immigrants at two U.S. military bases – and they’re using that info to get relatives to pay nonexistent fees:
The FBI is trying to determine how many people have been victimized by the scheme, in which con artists use private information about the children to contact their family members and demand payment for bogus processing and travel expenses needed to reunite the kids with their relatives.
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The children whose families have been contacted by the scammers were staying at shelters at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and Fort Sill in Oklahoma. The shelters are run by Baptist Child and Family Services, a San Antonio-based nonprofit, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency in charge of the children’s welfare.
There have been no arrests yet.