She naively thought she could obtain a loan of Rs 175,000 through a publication on Facebook. This 55-year-old resident of Saint-Pierre left only feathers there. She lodged a complaint with the local police station on Friday, September 10.
In her testimony, she relates that on Wednesday, August 25, she came across a “post” where it was mentioned that loan facilities were offered. Very interested, the lady sent a message in the form of a comment under the post, inquiring about the conditions applied. The response was swift.
The 50-year-old then applied for a loan. To do so, she had to provide her personal data. Then she got a phone call, she says. At the end of the line, a male voice with a French accent asks him to fill out a form and give all the information about his bank account as well as his secret bank code.
The woman, far from realizing that it was a scam, complied. Two days later, on Friday August 27, she received a second call on her phone from the same individual asking her to pay Rs 10,000 into her own account so that the sum of Rs 175,000 could be credited.
The lady informed her interlocutor that she did not have the required Rs 10,000 on her. Nevertheless, the individual insisted that she make a minimum deposit of Rs 2,000 for her loan application to be processed.
Two days after making the cash deposit into her bank account at the MCB branch in Quatre-Bornes, she received another phone call asking her to credit an additional Rs 2,000 to her own account. After she complied with the instructions and made this second cash payment to the said bank, she asked the cashier to check her account balance.
The latter notified her that there was only an amount of Rs 2,000 in her bank account. The lady immediately reported the matter to the Bank’s Customer Care Desk. It was there that she was made to understand that the Rs 2000 she had just credited to her account had been transferred to the account of a person whose identity she did not know.
Loan – Facebook scam: How a woman fell into the trap
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