The RCMP is warning the public about a “elaborate” bank scam that led to a B.C. woman losing $60,000 after she gave her bank cards to an individual she believed to be a courier from her bank.
The 68-year-old woman from Mission, B.C., reported to police she had lost as much as $60,000 after being targeted in the scam, RCMP said in a June 23 news release.
A man who claimed to be a representative at the woman’s bank called her on May 20 and told the woman her bank cards had been compromised, police said. The alleged representative said the bank would issue her new cards, and that a courier would come to her house to collect the old ones….