LPS warns about money transfer scam after local lost $11,000
LETHBRIDGE, AB – Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) is warning the public about a scam.
They were informed on Tuesday, June 2 that a local 24-year-old man has been scammed out of $11,000.
The man received a phone call from an unknown number. The caller claimed the man was under investigation for money laundering.
“The caller instructed him to take money out of his account and deposit it into a safe bitcoin account using a bitcoin ATM located along the 400 block of Stafford Drive North,” reads a media release from LPS.