Telephone scammers, identifying themselves as New Zealand Banking Association workers, are hassling Tauranga residents for their bank account details.
The Bay of Plenty Times received a complaint from a woman targeted by the scam on Friday morning.
She received a call from an Indian man named "Gerry Mesler". He
instructed her to phone a "Jacob Black" to arrange for her to be reimbursed $3647 worth of accumulated bank fees.
After saying "bye", both Mr Mesler and his victim didn't hang up. The woman heard mutterings in a foreign language in the background, before Mr Mesler said, "You should ring Gerry Black".
The Tauranga woman rang what she guessed was an Auckland number to get to the bottom of the fishy situation.
