A former beauty queen is warning New Yorkers to “be careful” after teenagers allegedly robbed her of thousands of dollars in a scam using the digital payment app, Zelle. Briana Siaca, 30, said she was sitting in Madison Square Park in Manhattan when she was approached by two teenage boys, who claimed to be fundraising for their Bronx basketball team. “[They said] they couldn’t afford their uniforms.
..they were giving me the whole spiel,” she said in a viral TikTok post.
Bank customers issued urgent warning after $300,000 ATM fraud Long Island senior conned out of $32K in an elaborate phone and computer scam The former Miss New York said she agreed to give the boys money but offered to send it through Zelle as she did not have cash. But what unfolded caught her by surprise . “I said , ‘ what’s your [Zelle] account? ’ He said , ‘I'll put it in for you ’,” she said.
“ He takes my phone ...
I noticed he was taking a long time, so I grabbed [the phone] from him and [the boys ] ran off.” Ms Siaca said when she looked at her Zelle account, she noticed that the boys had sent themselves $2 , 000. Migrant family of 16 loses $4K in Zelle rent con, forced to sleep on the street Criminals stole $2,285 from unsuspecting woman with cruel Walmart Paypal scheme Romanian mafia 'scamming customers at self-checkouts in California' “ I’m shocked.
These boys were so seemingly sweet and innocent,” she said. After reporting the incident to police, she said officers .
