{"id":4429,"date":"2025-03-13T03:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2025-03-13T03:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:47:22","slug":"bass-coast-elderly-foster-woman-scammed-130000-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/03\/13\/bass-coast-elderly-foster-woman-scammed-130000-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"BASS COAST: Elderly Foster woman scammed &#8211; $130,000 taken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bass Coast Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance after a 91-year-old woman was scammed out of more than $130,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman from Foster received a phone call from a person purporting to be from her bank on September 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scam caller advised the woman that fraudulent charges had been made on her account, before they attended her property to collect her bank card on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The offender then used the stolen card to purchase gift cards at a number of stores in Airport West, Altona, Bacchus Marsh, Balaclava, Caulfield, Chadstone, Corio, Deer Park, Elsternwick, Essendon, Footscray, Geelong, Maribyrnong, Hoppers Crossing, Malvern, Moonee Ponds, Point Cook, Port Melbourne Spotswood, Sunshine, Werribee, Williamstown and Yarraville between September 19-23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators believe the offender used the victim\u2019s card more than 130 times before it was cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police have released images of a man that they believe may be able to assist with their enquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bass Coast Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance after a 91-year-old woman was scammed out of more than $130,000. The woman from Foster received a phone call from a person purporting to be from her bank on September 19. The scam caller advised the woman that fraudulent charges had been made on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}