Video of a policeman talking to a fraudster has become viral on the Internet

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A Wisconsin scammer who tried to scam people out of money by posing as an IRS agent and threatening to arrest them targeted the wrong victim: police officer Kyle Roeder, who specializes in phone scams.

But the policeman did not betray himself to the fraudster, but called him back and brought him to the clear water, reports Daily Mail.

A video of their conversation on the official page of the O-Claire Police Department has already gained more than 4 million views and almost 120 thousand reposts.

The fraudster made a mistake from the very beginning of the conversation: threatening with arrest, he asked the name and address of the policeman in order to check him in the IRS database.

To this, Roder replied: “But you said that you were going to issue a warrant for my arrest and come to my house for detention. If you don't know my address, how are you going to do this? ”.

In response, the fraudster stated that he would transfer the data to the local sheriff, who would come to arrest Roder before the end of the working day. This was not a surprise for the policeman, since part of his duties are training for people on how to identify telephone fraudsters, in which he talks about the most common tricks.

Rocker also clarified whether he could turn to the local Tax Service office to resolve his issue, to which the fraudster answered him that “his case was transferred to another department that was investigating his debts”.

The scammer, whose accent sounded as if he came from India or Pakistan, said he worked in the Tax Service Bureau in Washington, DC.

During the conversation, he introduced himself as James Maxwell, then as James Johnson, and a little later as James Maxwell Johnson.

At one point in the conversation, colleague Roder Don Henning intervened in the conversation and pretended to arrest the policeman.

Then he stated to the camera that the police did not receive orders and did not report the arrests through telephone calls, stressing that such threats were fraud.

Roder said that the conversation was recorded for the purpose of its further demonstration to people for educational purposes. The police do not intend to pursue the caller, because most of these scammers are outside the state to which they call, and often even outside the United States.

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