Dear Editor,
ON Wednesday, December 20, 2017, my niece was travelling to Georgetown on a minibus. She was sitting next to a bulky guy and as they reached the Demerara Harbour Bridge, the man began to check some U.S. currency which he had in a big white envelope. He pretended as though he knew my niece and formed a conversation asking her about her husband.

She told him that he was doing fine and he asked her if she could change a US$100 for him, since he has no local currency to pay the bus conductor. He took out a US$100 note and asked her to change it and she gave him G$20,000 and he gave her the counterfeit US$100. In his envelope were all these counterfeit notes,totalling about US$500 and he was so smart that he was enticing people to see it.

Apparently, he had others with him on the lookout for policemen. My niece was going to Georgetown to do her Christmas shopping and was not aware that this man was a scammer.
The man was left sitting in the bus alone with the bus driver and conductor. To me this was a planned conning by the operators and the conman.

My niece went into the GBTI bank to change the foreign currency and was told by the cashier that the money was counterfeit.
What I observed is, since the policemen are all around in Georgetown patrolling, these crooks have moved their con business to the West Demerara just before the DHB from where these passengers are coming, especially Essequibo.

The commissioner of police should take note of this new operation and set up his new dragnet to catch these thieves. Passengers travelling on these buses should take warning of these scammers and not to be caught in their acts.

Yours faithfully,
Mohamed Khan