Aimed at creating awareness among the resettling and resettled Bhutanese families about various kinds of scams targeting them in the United States, the Bhutanese Community Resource Center (BCRC) has released a documentary, thanks to its dedication.
The Center registered in Washington has launched the documentary – Sawadhan – considering a number of scams which victimized some resettled families in the US, it is learnt.
The scammers are mostly learnt to be making direct telephone calls to resettled Bhutanese luring them of different things to cheat cash amount, confirmed even the local authority.
The 30-minute long documentary, available in three parts, was first screened on April 15 in Washington.
The film clearly explained how scammers target resettled families saying they have become recipients of cash donations, ranging from US $ 10,000 to 50,000, from the US government.
“This movie will prove useful to the seniors and people with limited English to know how scammers brainwash the victims,” said BCRC Chairman, Tanka Dhital.
Directed by resettled youth Krish Rizal, Chairman Dhikal has written the script of the film, available in the Youtube.
According to him, a few families have been already victimized in Washington.
Great job guys,,such awareness should be done nation wide so that our people wont have to be victim of any such scams. Keep up the good work.
This is a great work at right time. The actors have done fabulous job. Honestly the lead actor deserves to be in big industry. Great job guys. God bless u all
Every body knows this by this time. This is an issue to utilized 5000.00 grant . The grant has to be used to pay innocent and low income community people’s apartment rent and utility bills.