(HURON COUNTY, ON) – A scammer has set back a Central Huron resident $8,000 after the victim fell for a deceptive Google Play gift card scam.
It all started when the victim in this matter received a call from someone pretending to work for her bank. She was informed by this supposed bank employee her bank account had been hacked and $600 had been stolen from her account and wired to India. The scammer then pretended to transfer her call to the fraud department”. She was then informed the bank would contact the wire transfer service on her behalf and would try to get her money back for her. She received a return call later in the day to advise her the bank was successful in getting her money back plus an extra thousand dollars.
The victim was then instructed she had to repay the wire transfer service company by purchasing Google Play cards. The victim ultimately complied with the scammer’s requests and purchased a total of $8