Some residents of Yabapai County have been scammed at least $ 100,000 on weekends, and maybe the money will not be recovered on Thursday.
The victim received an illegal call from your Bank Security Team on January 25 and 26. They were told that bank accounts had to be infringed and closed, and new ones were opened. The scammer persuaded the victim to bring out all the money and transfer to a temporary account. This was not known to the victim, but he had belonged to a scammers.
According to the statement, the transfer occurred via bitcoin and in other cases with a new bank card account by ATM.
“One victim provided a lot of cash to men who came home to pick up it. According to the Sheriff Office, the amount of cash paid to the scammers who were still calling her.
The average loss in these cases was about $ 25,000.
On Thursday, YCSO stated that the general public needed to pay attention to scams. The Sheriff Office provided the following hints:
- Scammers use fear and panic to cause immediate actions. Don’t let them play your emotions.
- Do not send or remit money to those who have never met strangers.
- Move directly to a local bank branch to investigate your account status. Don’t trust the phone number given to you from the scammers -“They can only get them to another criminal, not your bank.”
- Report suspicious activities or potential fraud to law execution agencies and warn them with friends and family.
- Do not click the links or attachments of e -mail or text message. They may be fraudulent malware.
- Be careful of social media contacts from strangers.
- (928) Call the 771-3299 to schedule a free presentation of YCSO for fraud and fraud for local citizens, communities, churches, and other groups.
