Huron County OPP continue to deal with a mass of fraud reports across the area.
On March 13th, Huron OPP were contacted by an employee of a local business who was concerned for an elderly resident.
Police attended the residence of the senior and explained the concerns someone could be defrauding them.
The resident says they were on the phone to arrange for a taxi ride to the grocery store to purchase two VISA cards of $1000 each.
The senior said they had already given two visa cards of the same value purchased from a Goderich grocery store.
The scammer had called the victim back while police were at the residence requesting more cards.
Police escorted the victim to their bank, and it was discovered that the scammer(s) had created an online bank account for the victim and transferred $3000 from the victim’s line of credit to the victim’s chequing account, making it appear that they deposited $3000 of the banks’ money for the victim to use in their account.
While the victim was saved from more money lost, the senior did lose $2000.
