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In Düzce, suspects who tried to scam people by introducing themselves as police officers and telling them that their money in the bank was given to FETÖ were confused about what to do when the citizen said, “I will call the gendarmerie.” The citizen who did not fall into the scammers’ trap told the story of what happened to him. In the incident that took place on Çilimli Street in the Konuralp area of Düzce, phone scammers who introduced themselves as police officers tried to scam a citizen named Şerafettin Şengül, who they said was involved in FETÖ. The scammers first called Şengül’s mother-in-law, then called Şerafettin Şengül with the guidance of the elderly woman who panicked. Şengül, who started talking on the speakerphone of his phone and realized that the people on the other end were scammers, reported the matter to the gendarmerie and said that he would come to the requested location with the gendarmerie teams. Thereupon, the scammers, who were determined to be two people, were confused about what to do. The suspects who tried to convince Şengül started shouting at the citizen, saying that if the gendarmerie was notified, the operation would be in danger. When Şerafettin Şengül got angry at the scammers’ shouting, he raised his voice and the scammers hung up the phone. Şengül’s conversation with the phone scammers was recorded second by second. “I was suspicious because we constantly heard about it on the news” Describing the incident, Şerafettin Şengül said, “I believed them when they first called. They knew all the information about me. They called my mother-in-law first. She called us to her house in a panic. We came to her house. They called a few more times. They said the money in the bank was given to FETÖ. They used it for illegal purposes. She introduced herself as the police. We were hearing voices from behind. They said they were conducting an operation. They knew our private information. That’s why we believed them at first. They said things like, do not share the amount of money in the bank with anyone else, only with us. They wanted us to tell them the amount of money we had in the bank and the amount of foreign currency. I warned my wife not to tell them. When I didn’t tell them the amounts, they hung up and called again 15 minutes later. I was suspicious because we constantly heard about it on the news. “I also informed the gendarmerie teams,” he said. The gendarmerie teams started an investigation into the matter.