The Coconut Creek Police Department has issued a scam alert after an 81-year-old woman was targeted in what authorities described as a “Bank Card Courier Scam.”
According to police, the woman recently received a phone call from a female scammer who claimed to be calling from her bank. The caller told the victim that her bank card had been “compromised” and said someone would be sent to her home to collect the card and replace it.
Police said a scammer — possibly the same female who made the phone call — later arrived at the woman’s residence and took the bank card in person. The fraudster told the victim she would return shortly with a new card.
That never happened.
After taking the card, the scammer tried to drain the victim’s bank account, police said. The attempted transactions were stopped before they went through after the woman, with the help of her daughter, realized what had happened.
The crime prompted the Coconut Creek Police Department to issue a public warning reminding residents that banks do not operate this way.
“It’s important to remember that no one from your bank would ever call you out of the blue and tell you that there is something wrong with your bank card,” the department said in its alert.
Police also emphasized that banks would never send someone to a customer’s home to collect a bank card.
“If you ever get a similar phone call, just hang up,” the alert states.
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