SPANISH PRISONER SWINDLE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1671, 11 February 1913, Page 7

SPANISH PRISONER SWINDLE

FIFTEEN AEEESTS MADE.

tj Telegraph—Press Association--Copyright (Rec. February 10, 11.30 p.m.) • - ,; ;Madrid,:Februaryj 10. , fifteen, members of a'gang working the Spanish prisoner 'swindle have been orItcsted.' '

' The' ''Spanish' Prisoner Swindle" is a Jery old and,, successful fraud, A letter is received.'by- the intended victim atat-'-Ifig. that some -person, often a long-lost. ,< Motion/is dying in a Spanish prison and Vvishes to bequeath i his fortune to the . hddressee on* condition: that the' latter will,adopt his only-ohild. : "A snih of . taoney, varying from £50 td .£250, must, Jiowflver, first ,be sent to defray preliminhry lawyers' fee3i and the child's journey to letters'iire usually acfionipanied. by false documents bearing fcvery appearance of authenticity. On the money jbeing sent, nothing further .is heard. 1 Numerous British 6ubjecta have Wn,-and ;are stiU- being; .."defrauded in (this manner of .' consid«rable ' rams ; of ; ploneyj ■ which'it has only in a few cases V Nbsequ'ontl'y;, been'possible ; to ' recover. ■ |Any persons- receiving letters of this nature are urged to forward ; them; .to his : Majesty's Ambassador at Madrid,' who,;if '.fee.-"is ■ satisfied;,that : they 'emanate 'from '• the swindlets,. »vrill hand them to the ; Spanish.Government for sqch action as it inajr- 'lio! possiWft' for ihftfrt '* to takA with ihe view, tc :apprehend the authors of his fraud. - :,■