Families of Palestinian prisoners duped by con artists

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Tulkarem – Ma'an – A spate of fraud and attempted fraud cases against the families of Palestinian prisoners has broken out in the Tulkarem district of the northern West Bank.

In several cases, families reported anonymous callers claiming to have information about their imprisoned loved ones. In one case, the caller told a family that their son was on the list for a prisoner exchange with Israel. "Keep your cell phone on," the caller said.

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According to Nidal Al-Jallad, member of the board of directors of the Prisoners' Society, prisoners' families may be deceived because of the emotions triggered by any news of their incarcerated loved ones.

Al-Jallad himself came home one day to find out that his parents had been visited by a man who claimed to have good news about their other son Wajdi, who is serving a sentence in Israeli jail. However, Al-Jallad felt the man was lying and called Palestinian Preventive Security services who arrived and arrested the man. Following an investigation, the man admitted that he was con man from the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

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Evil bastards preying on the suffering of their own neighhbors.