A hilarious video is going viral this week showing a police officer troll a scam caller who threatened to have her arrested within 45 minutes if she didn’t hand over her personal information.
North Carolina’s Apex Police Department posted a video to Facebook showing Capt. Ann Stephens trolling a man who claimed she was in serious trouble because apparent bank accounts opened under her name have been used for “money laundering, drug trafficking, and for Internal Revenue Service tax scams all over USA.”
“You are speaking with Officer John Black from Social Security Administration. I have your file in front of me,” the caller begins in video. “Now, just to make sure that I’m giving out all the confidential details to the right person, can you verify me your home address?”
“No, I’m not going to give you my address,” Stephens responds. “If you have my file on me you should know what my address is.”
The caller then seems to get agitated as he tries to intimidate Stephens into giving him answers by declaring that their conversation is being “recorded and monitored” by agencies like the IRS and “department of narcotics.”
“One last thing — please do not interrupt me while I’m speaking. I will give you a fair enough chance to speak once I’m done, is that clear?” he snaps at her.
Stephens goes on to tell him that her address is 205 Saunders St in Apex, N.C., which is the headquarters of her police department. The caller, who has no idea he’s being trolled, asks Stephens for details like the last four digits of her Social Security number and how many bank accounts she has opened. The officer repeatedly refuses to give out her personal information and can be seen trying to hold in her laughter many times.
“Social Security Administration and law enforcement agencies have found 25 fraudulent bank accounts opened and used, fraudulently using your social security number to commit a fraud of more than $10 million dollars,” the scammer claims. “This account was used… for illegal local and international bank wire transfers that include money laundering, drug trafficking and for Internal Revenue Service tax scams all over USA.”
After being stonewalled over and over again, the caller finally breaks down and says, “What I’m going to do is I’m going to provide all this information to my senior officer that you are trying to run from the situation, you aren’t trying to cooperate over the recorded call.”
“In the next 45 minutes, you will be arrested, OK?” he adds. He then hands the phone over to a supervisor he claims is “Officer Jason Brown.”
This person asks Stephens for the number of bank accounts she has opened and warns her that “if you don’t tell me how many bank accounts you have, we will go ahead and suspend all the bank accounts which are connected to your Social Security. So don’t blame us if you lose any money.” Finally, he hangs up when he realizes he can’t scam her.
“I find it interesting that the first guy I talked to was John Black, and the second guy I talked to was Jason Brown,” Stephens says in the video. “Folks, these are scam calls — don’t ever give out your information, don’t ever verify information even if they have it. They are all scammers, just hang up on them — or have a little fun.”
Check out the video for yourself below.
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