Over $250,000 scammed from 2 people in Clovis, police warn

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Over $250,000 has been stolen from 2 radical successful Clovis crossed 2 months pursuing a brace of scams that targeted the city's older residents, according to the city's constabulary department.

Police announced connected Wednesday that 1 idiosyncratic withdrew and handed implicit $238,000 successful currency past period to aggregate chartless suspects aft a "pop-up" appeared connected their computer. Another nonmigratory was defrauded retired of $15,000 this period aft they received an email and followed the suspect's instructions.

Detectives accidental they investigated akin incidents successful December 2024. Investigations into akin incidents resulted successful 2 suspects successful 2 abstracted cases being arrested. Police accidental the suspects arrived astatine homes to prime up the ample amounts of currency that they were trying to scam from residents.

According to police, the scam starts arsenic a "pop-up" connected the victim's machine - oregon accusation successful an email. A telephone fig is fixed to the unfortunate to call, wherever the unfortunate past thinks it's their bank. Police accidental the suspects archer the victims they person been hacked and request to retreat their wealth to support it from being stolen. The victims are past fixed instructions to manus the currency implicit to a “security officer” from the institution who comes to their home, with a committedness to instrumentality it aft their slope account(s) are nary longer successful danger. The victim's wealth is past ne'er seen again.

Clovis Police accidental anyone who has been a unfortunate of a akin transgression oregon has immoderate accusation regarding these crimes should telephone the department's non-emergency telephone fig anytime astatine 559-324-2800.