On Friday, June 20, 2025, at approximately 5:30 p.m., Will County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to the 15600 block of Spencer Road in reference to suspicious activity involving a possible fraud. While en route, deputies were advised that a white SUV connected to the incident was parked at Lincoln-Way West High School. Deputies responded to the location and conducted an investigatory traffic stop.
The SUV was occupied by a single individual, later identified as 29-year-old Liwei Deng, a Chinese national residing in California. At the same time, deputies at the Spencer Road address spoke with the victim, who reported being scammed earlier that day.
According to the victim, she received an email around 11:00 a.m. from what appeared to be an identity protection service, alerting her to a fraudulent charge on her business account. The email included a phone number, which the victim called. The person on the line convinced her to allow remote access to her computer under the pretense of issuing a refund. The victim was then instructed to withdraw a large sum of money from her bank, place the cash into a tan envelope, and wait for a courier to arrive at her home. She was also provided a passcode that the individual collecting the package would use to verify their identity…