80-year-old woman almost got scammed out of 800 million by a man impersonating a police officer
On September 18, Duc Co District Police (Gia Lai) said that the unit had just promptly prevented a fraud case that appropriated nearly 800 million VND from an old woman.
According to Duc Co District Police, on September 12, Ms. C. (80 years old, residing locally) went to the police station to report receiving a strange phone call. This person claimed to be an officer of Duc Co District Police, informing Ms. C. that she was involved in a "money laundering" case.
This person asked Ms. C. to transfer all the money she had in her bank account, saying that the transfer was for the authorities to check whether the money was related to "money laundering" activities or not.
Seeing that Ms. C. was somewhat hesitant, the subject repeatedly threatened that if she did not deposit money into the above account number, she would be arrested by the police for being involved in "money laundering" according to the summons of the court and the prosecutor's office.
Fearing, Ms. C. prepared to withdraw the entire amount of nearly 800 million VND in her savings account as requested by the scammer. However, she had also heard about scam warnings on social media, so she went to the police to report the incident.
At Duc Co District Police, Ms. C. was explained by the officers that this was a fraudulent act of appropriating property, and at the same time asked her to absolutely not transfer any money.
According to Duc Co District Police, to work with people, the police will directly send invitations, summonses or send them through local police.
