Phone Scammers Trick Glen Rock Couple Out Of $100K

GLEN ROCK, NJ — After giving their banking information to a scammer who called them on the phone, a Glen Rock couple was swindled out of $100,000 from three accounts, police said this week.

According to the Glen Rock police, the couple contacted them last Wednesday about the unauthorized transactions.

The couple said that at first, they got fraudulent text messages saying there had been unauthorized charges on their credit accounts.

Then, the couple got a call from someone pretending to be a bank representative, saying there were fraudulent transactions made on their bank accounts.

The caller asked the couple for their bank information in order to reverse the transactions. The couple gave the person their information, police said.

When they checked their accounts at three different banks, they discovered unauthorized wire transfers exceeding $100,000, they told police.

The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office is working with the Glen Rock Police Department in an effort to place a stop payment on the wire
transfers, police said. They are still investigating.

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