Woman loses BD2,000 over phone call scam

TDT | Manama

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Two Asian men swindled a woman out of BD2,000 after deceiving her to expose her bank account information, according to court files. The duo is said to have posed as officials serving in a local exchange company, and they requested the woman to reveal her bank card details through a phone conversation.

They threatened her that her card will be deactivated in the event she doesn’t collaborate with them. She decided to give in to their request. Her decision backfired on her as the culprits used the information to withdraw BD2,000. She informed the Anti-economic Crime Directorate about the incident and the suspect were arrested.

However, one of them denied involvement in scamming the victim, stating that he was serving in a local car workshop and his friend came to him and requested him to download a financial programme. “He then told me I would receive two text messages.

He requested me to register the information in the text messages and re-send it. He offered me BD100,” the first suspect said. His co-suspect had another version of events. “I received a phone call from an unknown man and he told me that he transferred BD2,000 to my account by mistake,” the co-suspect said.