by Alex Lloyd Gross
June 7,2023
Some scam artists are very good at getting people to part with their money. They come up will all kinds of tricks and scenarios, from your child was arrested and needs bail money, to “Microsoft” calling about computer problems.. Now there is a new scam.
The con artist will call a business where a young person is working and identify themselves as a police officer. The juvenile cashier is told they are in trouble for accepting counterfeit money and they need to take money out of the register to pay a fine.. They may also be told to drive to an ATM to get more cash for the “fine”. They will meet the “police” to pay the fine or turn over money for investigation or whatever the scammer thinks will work.
In Bensalem, a teenage cashier almost fell for it when a fake police lieutenant called her work on June 5, 2023. She was told to withdraw money for the fine and she was in the process of going to an ATM, when her father saw suspicious movements on her phone. He tracked her down and she kept her cash. She never met the scammer.
