LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Mesquite Police Department arrested a man after he allegedly nearly defrauded $45,000 from an elderly Nevada woman, according to police.
On Sept. 7 Mesquite police responded to a “disturbing case” of fraud after the elderly victim reported receiving a phone call from someone claiming to be a representative from her bank and that her account had been compromised.
The victim was transferred between multiple callers with the scammers claiming to be from the Federal Trade Commission, the Better Business Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The suspected instructed the victim to withdraw as much money as possible from her bank accounts and over two separate transactions she withdrew a total of $45,000 in cash. The suspects then told her that an undercover U.S. Marshal would meet her at a local business to retrieve the cash in a locked box and to complete the handoff, she was given a specific password to use, police said.
Mesquite police were alerted about the situation and responded to the location where they saw a man slowly driving around the parking lot. Police stopped him for further investigation and he was arrested in connection to the incident.