On September 3rd, 2024 around 1 p.m., Deputy Michael Murphy was contacted by an 86-year-old man at the Fairfield Glade Police Department in regards to a possible scam.

The victim said he purchased a Taurus revolver from http://taurusgunstore.com/ in January of last year and made the purchase via his Zelle account which is linked to his old Regions bank account.

After making said purchase, he was contacted by many different parties seeming to be financial institutions claiming that he needed to make payments for different reasons for the firearm to be shipped.

These reasons included insurance, certification, legalization of delivery, delivery fees, city stamps, medical reports, mail authorization, and
California authorization.

All transactions were made through Zelle linked to the victim’s Regions Bank credit card

From January 13th of last year up into August of 2024, payments were sent:

• 1/13/2023 $369 sent via Zelle for the revolver;
• 1/17/2023 $160 sent to Safe Trans logistics for insurance;
• 1/23/2023 $250 sent to Safe Trans logistics via zelle for certification and legalization of delivery;
• 1/23/2023 $118 sent to Trans del Express via Zelle for a delivery fee;
• 1/24/2023 $100 sent to Trans del Express via Zelle for city stamps;
• 1/25/2023 $150 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for covid stamps;
• 1/28/2023 $119 sent to Taurus gun store via Zelle for delay fee;
• 1/28/2023 $199 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for continuous entry bond fee;
• 1/28/2023 $250 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for an express delivery fee;
• 1/31/2023 $50 sent to Taurus gun store via Zelle for attestation stamp;
• 2/2/2023 $300 sent to Trandel Express via Zelle for attestation stamp;
• 2/6/2023 $300 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for attestation stamp;
• 2/9/2023 $500 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for federal diplomatic report and seal;
• 2/10/2023 $500 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for federal diplomatic report and seal;
• 2/17/2023 $700 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle;
• 2/27/2023 $250 sent to Taurus gun store via Zelle for security fee and sanitary certificates;
• 2/28/2023 $500 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for security fee and sanitary certificates;
• 3/1/2023 $500 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for security fee and sanitary certificate;
• 3/8/2023 $500 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle to “vanilla credit card” for the medical report;
• 3/16/2023 $500 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for medical report.
• 3/17/2023 $500 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for medical report.
• 3/22/2023 $500 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for medical report.
• 3/27/2023 $380 was sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for California authorization
• 3/21/2024 $375 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for mail authorization.
• 6/24/2024 $350 sent to Transdel Express via Zelle for mail authorization.

In total, the victim lost a total of $8789.00 in fraudulent charges.

However, on August 26th, 2024, the victim was contacted by subjects claiming to be Bank of America Refunds Services Bank who stated they would get him his money back.

He was scammed into giving BOA refund services bank for 14 different transactions totaling $4689.14.

The fraudulent transactions from the BOA refund service bank are shown below.

• 8/26/2024 $519.70 sent to Tuongthamrnk Tung Lam Tran for processing fee;
• 8/26/2024 $416.89 sent to Wantellytttmmm Ca Bang Truong for refund license
• 8/26/2024 $365.44 sent to Iuanamaryamp Huy Truong for Instant deposit
• 8/26/2024 $519.79 sent to Quyenhan Thi Ngoc Ha Le for depositing fee
• 8/26/2024 $339.72 sent to Yurikocathern Linh Vu for Late Fee and deposit stamp
• 8/28/2024 $416.89 sent to Roenesfrillaj Ca Quang Duong for Refund License.
• 8/28/2024 $226.52 sent to Piappetey Hoa Kieu for deposit stamp
• 8/28/2024 $365.44 sent to Gotitainenr Ca Huong Hoang for late fee
• 8/29/2024 $211..09 sent to Ylonkadricasm von Hoang for Receivers Permit.
• 8/29/2024 $288.27 sent to Cazfen645 Dang Nguyen for Delay fee
• 8/30/2024 $375.73 sent to PadonManny Kieu Hung Ha for Confirmation money send
• 8/30/2024 $169.93 sent to Gaffohijauu8 Binh Hoang for Confirmation money send
• 8/30/2024 $211.09 sent to Taoppi47 Giap Nguyen for confirmation money send
• 8/30/2024 $262.54 sent to Cazfen676 Thao Nguyen for Late fee and deposit tax

Lazur was in constant text contact with people claiming to be from BOA refund service bank and left a word
document of messages exchanged during the text response.

Currently, the victim has lost $13, 478.14.