Scam Caller Deposited Fraudulent Checks, Instructed Resident To Transfer Them: Downers Grove Police

DOWNERS GROVE, IL — A caller posing as someone from an online company called "U Loan" scammed a resident out of more than $2,000, according to recent report from Downers Grove Police.

The victim told police they got a phone call on the afternoon of March 10 from a man using a San Francisco number. The caller said they needed the victim's bank information to make a deposit to their account.

Police say the man told the victim to take the money out as cash and texted them a code to scan at CVS to deposit the funds, along with $808 of their own cash.

The victim spoke with a bank teller the next day, who told them the checks deposits were fraudulent and had been reversed.

According to police, the victim changed their phone number after the incident. Officers instructed them to have credit bureaus put holds on their social security number.

An officer reported that they called the number the scam had come from, and the man on the other end of the line hung up when the officer said they were with the police department. A second call went unanswered.

The report comes shortly after Downers Grove police issued a warning to residents to be vigilant of another phone scam in which the caller poses as a member of the Downers Grove Police Department.