Police say the United States Secret Service is helping out a fraud victim in Oxford Mills.
Grenville County OPP say they were contacted by the victim on Feb. 19 who said they had received a telephone call from someone impersonating a Bell Canada representative.
Police say the suspect was asking about upgrading the victim’s router after fiberoptic lines were recently installed in the area.
The victim was instructed to download remote entry software to her device, at which point the suspect said that a virus had been found, requiring the matter to be escalated.
Police say the victim was guided to login to their online banking and the suspect then made it look like an overpayment had been made.
The suspect told the victim to go to their bank on multiple occasions where wire transfers of the “overpayment” were made to a bank south of the border.
The OPP contacted the United States Secret Service about the wire transfers and then U.S. officials contacted the bank which received the money.
As a result, the victim’s financial institution will be working on recovering portions of the funds.
