Thanks to the public's assistance, the Barrhead RCMP were able to arrest an Edmonton-area man accused of participating in a telephone scam on Aug. 7.

Cpl. Filipe Vicente stated the day before that they had received a complaint from an area resident, who reported falling victim to a variation of the "grandparent scam."

In this version, he said the caller said that their grandchild had been involved in an automobile collision and, as a result, had been arrested and that they needed money for his bail.

"Which is pretty typical," Vicente said, adding that scammers often represent themselves as a lawyer or the police.

However, he said, one thing the scammer did that is different from the norm is that instead of providing instructions on how to transfer the funds, they told their target that

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