According to reports, the criminal claimed to be a bank worker who I was going to exchange the “small face” bills for “big face” ones.
The granddaughter of the victim spoke with local media, to whom she detailed how a young man showed up this Tuesday at noon at her grandfather’s house and He convinced him to be a bank accountant who was going to withdraw a few dollars.
How the scam happened
“The event began with a call that was made around 1:00 p.m., when someone pretended to be my mom and told him that A person from the bank was going to go look for the money.“said the woman.
In that sense he continued: “After half an hour a boy arrived, rang the bell and my grandfather let him into the house. There he just received another call supposedly from my mother saying that he had to give him the dollars. He realized at that moment that something was wrong. but it scared him because he had the man inside his house.”
Then, the retiree became suspicious and asked the scammer to show him some type of identification. However, the offender He pretended to have forgotten his ID and assured that he had orders from work to present the money as soon as possible.
Finally, The man took the bills and left the house.while the victim continued arguing on the phone with the other scammer.
In conclusion, the retiree’s granddaughter said: “In total they took seven thousand dollars. They made him very upset. He feels very bad, very insecure because they entered his own house. They could have hit him. They studied everything. “They knew information about him.”
Source: Ambito
