The National Retail Federation expects people to spend a record number of $14.2 billion this Valentine’s Day and scammers will be out looking for a piece of it.
As reported by Taylor Robertson on News Center 7 at 6:00 , employees with Monroe Federal in Tipp City recently saved a woman from losing thousands of dollars to someone she thought was an online lover.
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The woman showed up at Monroe Federal with a $30,000 cashier check and wanted to cash it.
The employees later found out that the woman was going to put the money in a brown paper bag and drop it off at a Speedway across the street.
The bank didn’t fully realize what was going on until the Tipp City police came in with the woman.
“Thank God she finally got suspicious about what was going on,” Monroe Federal Vice President of Retail Curt Conley said.
Conley said the woman is in her 70s and was in a relationship with a man online who claimed he was from Canada.