The incident started when a man walked into the store on Saturday and introduced himself as fire inspector Jim Stance.
Stance told the employee that the owner had instructed her to pay him.The scammer, who got away with $970, provided the restaurant with fake invoices that looked real except for the fact that the address does not have a quadrant listed.
Fox 5 D.C. reported that there have been at least six similar incidents along the East Coast where a scammer claims to be a fire inspector and uses a fake company name, in many cases the name of the company is “Metro Fire Prevention.”Anyone with information that could lead to an arrest in the crime is being asked to call police at 727-9099 or text the tip to 50411.
The Washington Metro Police Department said in a press release that a reward of $1,000 is being offered for the information leading to an arrest.
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