Auburn, Massachusetts, became the stage for what might have sounded like a scene from a crime drama, but the threat was very real for a local couple faced with a $20,000 scam. The Auburn MA Police Department took to social media to narrate the events that unfolded on Thursday, July 17. According to the post, it all began when the couple tried to clear their mortgage balance and mistakenly contacted a scammer, masquerading as their financial institution.
The scam unfolded when a male scammer, pretending to be from the couple’s bank, instructed them to withdraw a staggering sum of $20,000 and await an “undercover federal agent” who would collect the cash in person. However, realizing the malevolent intent behind these directions, the couple contacted the police just as a woman, later identified as Andy Ng from Vancouver, British Columbia, approached their home under the guise of an “undercover FDIC agent”. Auburn police arrived on time and apprehended Ms. Ng as she was walking away from what could have been her latest victims’ address…