JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A local woman was scammed out of more than $2,000 after getting a call from someone claiming he was going to deport her.
The woman said she got the call to her cell phone Wednesday afternoon. She answered and what followed were agonizing hours in which she said the caller terrorized her.
The police report was filed with the Jacksonville Sheriff's details what police call a "flim-flam scheme;" this time, the target was a local lawful Indian immigrant.
"He knew my name and address and he knew that I was from India," the woman said.
The victim was too scared to go on camera and asked us not to use her name.
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She said the call went on for at least three hours. The scammer threatened her with deportation and had her withdraw money from her account and wire to him from an Advance America location on Baymeadows.
"He was giving me legal terminology, provision number 18, provision number 20 and form 320, all legal sounding form," the woman said.
Action News Jax law and safety expert Dale Carson said the scammer may have gotten her personal information from many sources.
"It could come from a church, it could come from a place that you shop and you filled out a document," Carson said.
The victim said she ended up wiring $2,100 before she realized she had been scammed.
She now wants her story to serve as a warning.
"I always thought I'm smart, nobody can fool me, but this happened to me, it can happen to anybody," she said.
Carson said it's likely the scammer used technology to spoof the number and make it appear like it was law enforcement.