Dengjin Chen ARRESTED for serving as money mule... TWICE!

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UPDATE: Chan was arrested once more

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On May 10, 2025, the Croton-on-Hudson Police Department in New York arrested 44-year-old Flushing resident Dengjin Chen for serving as a money mule for a printer support scam, where:

  • The scammers will pose as Hwelett-Packard and fraudulently advertise their services on Google
  • The victim will be asked to withdraw $20,000 from their bank account and hand it off to a designated courier, or money mule.
  • Once the money is obtained, the scammer will ask the victim to withdraw and send $20,000 once more.

Chen was arrested and charged with attempted 3rd-degree grand larceny, but has since been released on an appearance ticket. WRRV has also indicated the situation as being similar to another recent phone scam in the region, with the scammer posing as an agent with the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to demand $20,000 from their victim on the grounds that their computer contained child pornography.

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MAJOR UPDATE: Chan has been arrested once more, this time for serving as a mule for a Social Security scam, where:

  • The scammers will send fraudulent text messages under the guise of Apple to falsely claim fraudulent activity was detected on their victims’ account.
  • The victim, in this case a 71-year-old female, would later be transferred to a bhenchod falsely claiming to be a representative of their bank, in this case Chase.
  • The fake bank representative will instruct their victim to withdraw $30,000 from their bank account and hand it off to a designated courier, or money mule.

Chan was once again charged with 3rd-degree grand larceny. But what was interesting was the fact that, while he was incarcerated, he was discovered to be involved in another elder scam in Wilton, CT.

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