BENTONVILLE — A Rogers woman was scammed out of thousands of dollars in a plot that supposedly connected her with drug trafficking and a CIA agent.
She reported the incident to Rogers police Sept. 9.
She told police while she was on vacation, she received a phone call supposedly from Bank of America Privacy Assist, who left a voicemail telling her her credit rating had changed, according to a police report. She ignored the first call, but responded after receiving a second call informing her of a potential $1,400 fraudulent purchase on her bank account, according to the report.
A woman on the phone told her the purchase took place in Mexico, then connected her to a man in Bank of America’s fraud department, according to the report.
The man informed her the fraudulent charge would be removed from her account, but the federal government had put an alert on her name claiming she was a potential money launderer and drug trafficker, according to the report.
The man told her he would help her sort things out, and connected her with an agent at the CIA named “Jason Webber,” according to the report.
Webber told her her private information must have been compromised, and was being used by criminals who were the actual ones involved in the money laundering and drug trafficking, according to the report.
He told her he would clear her name and help her protect her information and money if she agreed to help the CIA apprehend the money laundering and drug trafficking suspects. The…
