27.12.2025 16:42
In Antalya, scammers who called Fatma and Abdil Kaya posed as police officers and lured them into a trap by saying, "A FETÖ operation will be conducted at the bank." The panicked elderly couple transferred 838,000 Turkish lira, which they had saved for 10 years with the dream of buying a car, into the scammers' account. Once they realized they had been defrauded, the Kaya couple was deeply saddened and wants the suspects to be caught and their money returned.
Fatma Kaya (71) and Abdil Kaya (72), a couple living in the Emek neighborhood of the Kepez district in Antalya, who have been saving money for about 10 years with the dream of buying a car, were called by a person who introduced himself as a police officer. He told them that a FETÖ operation would be conducted at the bank and that they needed to transfer the money in their accounts.
THEY PANICKED AND GAVE ALL THEIR SAVINGS
Upon this, the panicked elderly couple headed to the bank. The fraudsters, who said they should never hang up the phone, asked them to deposit the money into the address they would provide and to say that the account owner was their son-in-law. Following the instructions of the other party to the letter, the Kaya couple transferred 838,000 liras to the given account number from the bank.
After sending the money, the elderly couple, who became suspicious after a while, explained the situation to their children and then realized they had been defrauded. The Kaya couple went to the police and filed a complaint against the suspect or suspects.
"THEY SHOULD RETURN OUR MONEY"
Fatma Kaya, who is still in shock from the incident, said, "They even mentioned my children's names. When they said that, I believed they were police. When we went to the bank, the employee there asked where I should send the money, and we said our son-in-law. Because those on the phone had asked us to say that. We were defrauded. They should return our money," she stated.
"WE DON'T WANT OTHER LIVES TO BE LOST"
Abdil Kaya also said: "They said we will conduct a FETÖ operation at the bank, and you should not talk to anyone. They said the money in your account would be under the central bank's guarantee.' As a result, we left the house, and the phone was open. We did the transaction at the bank, and they told us to move 100 meters away from the bank. It didn't take 5 minutes, and we realized we had been defrauded. We want other lives not to be lost. I am retired from a public institution. We have been victimized, and I hope our victimization will be resolved. Even if the person who took this money dies, the state will find him in the grave. Our state is strong."