Burlington Police are reminding residents to be vigilant with their financial information after a recent incident of alleged identity theft.
The department says a Burlington woman reported somebody had called her posing as an employee of Bank of America, where she has an account. The caller said the woman’s debit card had been used fraudulently at a Walmart in California and asked for her account information so the bank could open a new account. The woman did — only to receive an email from the bank noting fraudulent transactions.
When the woman called the number in the email, she was told somebody had transferred $3,500 from her account and there was an attempted transfer for another $5,000. She mentioned the prior call but was told she had been lied to.
The bank stopped the $5,000 transfer attempt and refunded the $3,500 because the woman had fraud protection on her account.
