A 76-year-old woman in Puerto Rico was defrauded on Tuesday, November 10, after she handed six bank cards to a stranger who came to her home in the Villas de Loíza neighborhood in Loíza, the Puerto Rico Police reported. The woman received a phone call from a person who identified herself as López and claimed to be an employee of a bank.
The supposed representative told her that her cards were having problems and that someone would be sent to her residence to pick them up. A man later arrived at the home, and the woman, following the instructions she had received, gave him six bank cards. When she checked her account balance, she found it stood at $0.00, when she had previously had approximately $4,000.
The case was referred to the Property Division of the Criminal Investigations Corps (CIC) in Carolina.