The cleaner had never visited Shanghai, and neither did he have a bank account there.
But the phone call left him distraught, which only increased a short while later when two letters came claiming to be from Chinese and Shanghai officials.Mr Zhang was then told by the scammers to open a bank account and allow the officials to have access to it. This would then give them the opportunity to thoroughly investigate whether money was being laundered, they told the older man.
At this time, when the scam began, Mr Zhang was still in quarantine due to Covid. Upon his release from quarantine, he transferred $60,000 into the new bank account.On Dec 7, when he tried to withdraw money for himself, he discovered that the scammers had all but wiped him clean, having taken $330,000 which took him 50 years to save.Several withdrawals were made from his account on Nov 15 and 23, and while he was informed of these via SMS, he did not understand the messages he was sent.
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