Mark Antonio Rosales, last week you heard how he was accused of scamming the owner of a car rental service. But that isn't the only accusation for a crime of dishonesty that Rosales faces.
Today 2 women came to our office and spoke with us off camera about an alleged Canadian work Visa Scam they found themselves tied up in, after doing business with Rosales.
They claimed that they gave him thousands of dollars in exchange for promised assistance in getting a Canadian visa to go and work in Vancouver part time. The woman claims that she also gave Rosales extra money to assist her in getting her husband's passport who would be going with her. But in the end she received no Visa, and no Passport, and has no info on Rosales's whereabouts.
Voice of: Mrs Robinson, Scam Victim
"What happened was that my uncle got a call that a trip was leaving for Canada and they needed workers right you know how they usually do that worker exchange thing right and my uncle informed us that we only needed $400 for a Canadian Visa and then we would be leaving to go to Canada and work, Vancouver specifically and the guy in charge of it was this Mark Rosalez, I called Mark. I spoke to Mark and he sounded legit. He explained a lot of stuff to me. A lot of things were made transparent and I ended up giving him some cash, about $640 cash and I ended up depositing in his account about $950 thereabout, almost $1600 he received from me, $10 shy of $1600 he received from me for payments for visa and passport, one day passport because 2 persons that were going did not have passport. And he said he could expedite the passport so he collected for one passport from me and 3 visas and he said he would pay for my husband's passport and visa right? Everything was going okay and he told me me he would come to pick up my husband and my step son to go get the visa and the passport in Belmopan he never showed, instead we got a call and he said he is busy and for them to meet him at Belmopan bus terminal for 9:00 the same day so they went and this was before they mad the last deposit, the last $400 so he was in contact with them all the while and before they made that $400 when they made the deposit he ghosted them and they stayed at Belmopan bus terminal all day."
She says that they trusted him but after doing a background check they realized that they made a huge mistake. And they are not the only ones that got roped into this Canadian working visa scheme.
Mrs Robinson, Scam Victim
"So my friend decided to Google his name and lo and behold the charges that were listed of fraud from this man and that is when we knew that we really got hit hard she lost $1200, I lost $1600and most of the bank transactions, cash delivery was to mark Rosalez himself, bank transactions was to Brittany Nicole Rodney that was the person we were supposed to give, that was the person we deposited all our money to those of us who did it through the banking system."
"We have a group of us, like 25, 30 of us in this group chat he got money from every jack one of us."
Again, we did try to reach Rosales by phone for comment, but it went straight to voicemail. He told us days ago he would hand himself into Corozal police but that hasn't happened.
