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(CNN) A California cab driver knew something sounded fishy when his elderly passenger said she needed a ride to the bank to withdraw $25,000.

Rajbir Singh picked up a 92-year-old woman in Roseville, California, two weeks ago. When he started chatting with her, Singh said she told him she was about to withdraw the money to settle a debt with the IRS.

He pleaded with the woman to reconsider, saying he thought this could be a scam. Singh even detoured to a police station to help convince his passenger not to withdraw her money.

"I am an honest guy, and these are old people. They need help," Singh, the owner of Roseville Cab, told CNN on Thursday. "It just made sense."

As Singh talked to the woman, she told him that someone had called her and asked for the money. When he asked if it was a family member, the woman grew silent.

Singh said the woman agreed to let him call the number to the person who was posing as an IRS employee.

"We called this number again and I asked the man, 'Do you know this lady?' He said no," Singh said. "I knew something was wrong."

When Singh pressed the man, saying the woman was 92 years old and she was nervous, the man hung up on him. After repeated calls back, Singh said the number blocked them.

Despite that, Singh said the woman still didn't believe him, so he came up with another idea.

"Raj pleaded with the woman to reconsider so they agreed to stop by the Roseville Police Station to ask an officer," the police department said in a post on Facebook.

Singh spoke with an officer in the station, who then spoke with the woman, police said.

The conversation with the officer worked, and the woman believed she was being scammed.

"We love this story because several times throughout, Raj could have just taken his customer to her stop and not worried about her wellbeing," Roseville police said in the Facebook post. "He took time from his day and had the great forethought to bring the almost-victim to the police station for an official response."

Roseville police said Singh deserved a "great citizen award" in a statement.

"His quick thinking saved a senior citizen $25,000 and for that, we greatly appreciate his efforts," police said.

Singh took his passenger home, her bank account saved. A week after the potential scam was thwarted, Singh said he got a call asking him to come back to the station.

Officers gave Singh a $50 gift card to thank him for what he did.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/16/us/taxi-driver-prevents-scam-trnd/index.html

Indians are majorly the ones responsible for IRS scams in USA. Plot twist: an Indian man saved the poor woman... God is truly great.

They typically operate call centers in India and use international phone numbers to call unsuspecting victims. So many videos on YouTube about this.

"settle a debt with the IRS"

Classic scam format.


Just imagine the age of the woman.

God bless the cabbie. Feels good to know good people still abound.

WTF
The work don burst
Lol

eduman365:
Indians are the ones responsible for IRS scams in USA. Plot twist: an Indian man saved the poor woman...

God is truly great.

how come you know that?
might have been a Nigerian or any nationality even a pure us citizen.
by their fruit..............

SEGLIZ:

how come you know that?
might have been a Nigerian or any nationality even a pure us citizen.
by their fruit..............

.

I'm an IT guy... You can do your research as well.
IRS and Microsoft scams are majorly perpetrated by Indians. Check Youtube and school yourself.

Good job

Rajbir Singh picked up a 92-year-old woman in Roseville, California, two weeks ago. When he started chatting with her, Singh said she told him she was about to withdraw the money to settle a debt with the IRS.

He pleaded with the woman to reconsider, saying he thought this could be a scam. Singh even detoured to a police station to help convince his passenger not to withdraw her money.

Someone about to scam a 92 year old woman?
Probably the 25K is all her life savings.
They wanna reap where they did not sow.
May all fraudsters keep meeting disappointment in life.

Thumbs up to the good driver.

congrats

eduman365:
Indians are the ones responsible for IRS scams in USA. Plot twist: an Indian man saved the poor woman...

God is truly great.

Indians are really IT Savvy all over the world, but no where in the news mentioned the nationality of the scammers tho....

Thats nice..


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I know the scammer must be a be a head slamming amoteku youth

Damnnnnn niggarrr

Lucky her

Wow. People are really desperate. 92 years old woman.
There should be a line at least na

God bless u Mr Singy(Indian namef sha ).Cough* E fit be dem Marlians pipu

Nice... The man is very selfless. Imagine how he sacrificed his hustling time just to save someone. Wow


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The cab driver was God's sent.. these scammers will never go unpunished. Awon ole


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Hmmm... Most likely One Naija guy would have been balling somewhere now if the job had gone successfully..

Some will label that man village people, while some will see him as a God sent....if you know, you know.

Odiegwu.

now this is the type of things i like to see,

Japa

Greedy Americans

Ha! Oja ti be ni sha!

Work done spoil!

Day break, the woman no still pay

SEGLIZ:

how come you know that?
might have been a Nigerian or any nationality even a pure us citizen.
by their fruit..............

C'mon LOCAL MAN Segliz, eduman365 is 100% right...


...even though they try to mask it, U can't just miss that rattling, strong Indian accent...

Shame on all the boys on here who are angry e no succeed

The Indian cabbie became suspicious the moment he heard IRS because he knows it is his people who carry out such scams

IRS and advance fee payment scam mostly done by Jamaica scammers.