A woman from Stockton Road in Chuckey spoke with Greene County Sheriff’s on Tuesday and reported she was convinced to withdraw almost $12,000 from her Wells Fargo Account.
According to the victim, someone named Adrian Griffin contacted her and somehow convinced her to withdraw $11,900 from her account. The victim said she drove to the Wells Fargo Bank in North Carolina to withdraw the funds and then went to a Citgo to deposit the money into a bitcoin machine, as instructed by Griffin.
The alleged suspect then sent the victim a QR code. She said because the code included the last four digits of her husband’s social security number, she believed the call was legit. But once the money was deposited she started realizing it might have been a scam.
A report was made with the bank, which closed the old accounts, and made the victim a new account. No further information was provided at the time of the sheriff’s office report.
