the detective asked Alice to gather her bank statements and credit cards

he then called his superior at police HQ

I am bringing in a victim of ongoing identity theft

we need the incident room with comms IT forensics and the bank fraud squad

make sure you bring your cell phone said the detective

Alice jumped into the police car and they went lights and sirens

the detective received a radio message from HQ

operation stingray is launched and three SWAT teams mobilized 

upon arrival at Police HQ they rushed to the incident room

it was packed with about thirty people and banks of computers

the detective handed the credit cards and bank statements to different groups

he asked Alice to hand over her mobile phone to the comms team

the detective sat a command post with multiple monitors

within minutes he was briefing Alice on his team findings

the gang have made multiple charges on your credit cards

your phone has been hacked and cloned

they have successfully completed a modest wire transfer

that was just a test and a $5000,000 wire transfer request is pending

we now have your bank on the line

they will give us control of the wire transfer authorization call

an operator in a sound proof booth made the call pretending to be the bank

the detective told Alice it will be to your cell phone but this one will not ring

because they are forwarding your calls to another cellphone in their possession

the call went to VM and the operator left a call back message

the detective told Alice to standby

the gang will want to be sure she had not gone to the police yet

a few minutes later Alice got a text from Dave

Hey how is it going….the boys told me you went out

text him back saying you are at the mall said the detective

Dave responded with I miss your smiling face Alice please send me a selfie now

the detective led Alice to a green backdrop to take a selfie

the IT guys added a background and changed the metadata to match the mall location