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CCPD Scam Alert

The Bank Representative Scam is the basis for this Coconut Creek Police Department Scam Alert. We've warned you about this one before. A 73-year-old woman recently called us after falling victim to this scam. She got a call from a fraudster posing as a representative from her bank. He claimed someone had hacked into her Zelle account and he needed to fix it. He talked her into logging onto her bank's website while he was on the phone with her. Then he convinced her to allow him to remote into her computer so he could supposedly correct the issue. Of course, it was all a scam. All he did was transfer money to himself. There was never anything wrong with any of her accounts. If you get a similar phone call, remember that your bank would never reach out to you over the phone for anything like this, so just hang up.