The woman was told by a fraudster posing as her daughter that she had dropped her smartphone in a toilet and needed $1,800 for a replacement.
Nanaimo RCMP say a woman recently lost $1,800 in a scam involving the use of texting platform WhatsApp.
But several weeks ago, her daughter said that her WhatsApp account had been blocked and they should start contacting each other using Instagram.
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