The trend of scammers claiming victory over their prey continues.

The Winkler Police Service is reporting that scammers were recently able to successfully collect from a local female.

Over the weekend, an unknown male called the woman, claiming to be the "Winkler RCMP," which of course does not exist.

The male told her that her identity was stolen by a subject involved in drug trafficking.

She was instructed to remove her money from her bank account and transfer it to a Bitcoin wallet provided by the scammer, which she did.

The female did not provide any personal information to the scammer, however, she is out the money she transferred.

Last week, in a separate case, Winkler Police received a report that fraudsters were able to open a cryptocurrency account using the information stolen from a local female.

The individual reported to police that she received a text message from Amazon saying that an item she ordered was lost and she needed to contact them immediately via a phone number they provided.

The female had not ordered any items from amazon, however, she proceeded to contact the number, during which time they provided her with a verification code to enter on her computer.

Doing so, allowed scammers access to her computer.

She also provided the fraudster with her credit card numbers and driver’s license number.

The following day she received an email notifying her that she had opened an account on a cryptocurrency website for bitcoin, and that is when she realized it was a scam.

The female was not out any money at the time of the complaint.

Meanwhile, two drivers lost their vehicles for a week, the privilege to drive, and hundreds of dollars in fines following an incident last week.

On Wednesday, police were dispatched to a complaint of two vehicles doing donuts on a business parking lot and racing on Norland Drive.

When they arrived on scene, the suspect vehicles were gone, however, police were able to view video footage of the offences which helped them locate one of the suspect vehicles on main street a short time later.

The driver of that vehicle then contacted the person driving the other vehicle to attend the scene.

Both drivers were issued tickets for Racing with another motor vehicle ($672 fine) and Driving imprudently ($203 fine). Their vehicles and drivers’ licenses were also seized for seven days.