A woman who fell for a compromised bank account scheme lost more than $12,000, according to the Princeton Police Department.
The woman told police that she was contacted by a caller who pretended to be a Bank of America employee on Oct. 28. The fake employee told her that her bank account had been compromised.
The caller told her to withdraw $10,700 and hand it over to a man in the parking lot of a business on North Harrison Street. She complied and went to meet the man. He approached her and identified the bag containing the cash, took it and left, police said.
The woman subsequently discovered that she had been also been defrauded of an additional $1,487 through a separate electronic payment in the incident of theft by deception.
