Woman loses $25K in scam

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A resident lost $25,000 in a scam that began with multiple text messages from an unknown phone number that claimed there were fraudulent transactions on her bank account, according to the Princeton Police Department.

The woman responded to the text messages and soon received a phone call from a person who pretended to be a bank representative, police said. She was told to wire money to three different account numbers.

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She wired the money to the account numbers and lost $25,000 in the incident of theft by deception that was reported on March 11, police said.

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