Another Frum woman, this time from Brooklyn, was just scammed out of thousands of dollars, TLS has learned.
Similar to the story in Lakewood this week, the approximately 29-year-old Chasiddish woman was called and told a family member of hers was arrested, or going to be, and she needed to immediately send them thousands of dollars, the father-in-law of the victim who resides in Lakewood said.
The woman was instructed to withdraw the money from the bank and travel via taxi to a specific location Bayonne, New Jersey, to deposit the cash to a cryptocurrency machine.
The father-in-law says he received a frantic phone call from his son saying his wife called him to “Say Tehillim.” She then hung up and did not return home for several hours.
Shortly after 4 PM she returned back to her home in Brooklyn.
“There needs to be an awaress about these type of things,” a Brooklyn Shomrim member told TLS. “Speak to your neighbors, your Shul members and everyone who doesn’t read the news- they need to know it’s a scam,” he said. “Never get into conversation with these people, just hang up the phone.”
Mamesh a shud oif Yiddishe Gelt.
This is so sad. So many of our families and mosdos are struggling – and these Ganuvim Resha’im just clean these people out, Mamesh Heartbreaking.
HaMakom Yimalei Chasroinchem.
A little education will eliminate this nonsense. It’s time for Rabbonim, askonim,& the frum media to address this issue. I hope the chassidish community spreads the word not to listen to these scammers.
Whats the connection with these victims and the anti-vaxxer victims?
It seems that these criminals seem to know about the frum oilam and i would be willing to bet that the criminal is not in a 3rd world country, rather closer and with knowledge of our community.
Who whould believe depositing money into cryptocurrency is a legit government agency