Several people, including Arabs in the United States, were victims of strange incidents of fraud and fraud committed by a person who impersonated an American officer and contacted them via their phones, asking them for money on the pretext of paying fines and violations recorded on them, which necessitated the authorities to issue a warning warning of this fake officer.
These incidents took place in Delray Beach, Florida, and as Arab eyewitnesses confirmed to Sky News Arabia, many residents of the city, including some members of the Arab community, received calls from a person who told them that they were an officer in the city’s police department and asked them to transfer money in exchange for fines and violations recorded against them.
Moayad Muhammad, an Iraqi immigrant residing in Florida, said that many of those who received the calls fell victim to this person and transferred money to him, especially since he told them their data, which did not make them suspicious of him.
And he continued, in his interview with “Sky News Arabia”, that the facts of the monument have become widespread during this period in the United States, whether through communications or communication via the Internet.
He explained that two days ago he almost fell victim to such operations of fraud when he received a text message from a phone number not registered with him telling him that he had been chosen to participate in a competition in which he would win a thousand dollars if he answered several questions, but it turned out that the questions sent to her are links to hacking his data. Once you click on it.
The Delray Beach, Florida Police Department issued an alert saying, “This week, an individual falsely identifying himself as Delray Beach Police Department Sergeant John Roberts was observed making multiple calls from an Internet phone number and soliciting money from people.”
He continued, “A number of those who received the calls hung up on this counterfeiter and called the police station directly to report him.”
The police department stressed that the officers did not and will not make phone calls asking people for money, asking them to pay a fine or parking violation, or paying a pledge by phone, and demanded that the police department not respond to such calls and report them immediately.