BOARDMAN — Scammers have been busy this week and managed to take more than $22,000 from two Boardman residents in unrelated cases.

In another case, a man is charged with defrauding his own family.

A Boardman police report states that a woman came to the station on Friday to report that she had lost more than $16,000 in a fraud scheme.

She told police that she received a call Feb. 24 from someone who claimed to be from 7 17 Credit Union. The man had a Middle Eastern accent, she told police, and informed her that she had two fraudulent charges on her account.

The report states she said he sent her a link to click on, where she entered her banking password. Then he told her to delete the bank app and redownload it in 48 hours.

The next day, she said, an agent from 7 17 Credit Union called her to inform her that the previous caller was a scammer.

When she checked her account, she found six cash advances on her Visa card, totaling $14,300, and another $2,000 withdrawn from her checking account.

The report states that the woman was told that the transfers went to a Stark County man who is also a 7 17 Credit Union member.

A second Boardman police report states that a woman came to the station on Saturday to report that she had been defrauded of roughly $6,000 in a gift card scam.

The report states that the woman told police she was contacted while at work by a person claiming to work for Microsoft, who told her that her phone was compromised and contained child pornography images. The person told her the issues could only be repaired with a $10,000 payment, which had to be made with gift cards bought at Home Depot.

The woman told police she was only able to obtain $6,000 worth of gift cards from Home Depot on Southern Boulevard, and then provided the person with the numbers on each of the three gift cards.

The report states the woman also provided her banking information and some other personal details.

In another separate incident, a man was arrested Saturday on one count of misuse of credit cards, a fifth-degree felony. The police report states that Ali Jamal Abu-Ghannam, 23, of Boardman, was arrested about 2:30 a.m. after police responded to an open line 911 call at the Residence Inn by Marriott Hotel on Tiffany South Boulevard in Poland.

An official at Mahoning County Boardman Court told The Vindicator that Abu-Ghannam made an initial appearance on the charges on Tuesday, posted his $2,500 cash or surety bond and has since been released from Mahoning County jail. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on March 24, court records show.

The police report states that officers responded to the family’s Glenridge Avenue home on Feb. 3, where Abu-Ghannam’s parents told police that Abu-Ghannam had maxed out three of their credit cards. The father stated that his AT&T bill had also increased considerably after Abu-Ghannam repeatedly added lines to the account and billed iPhones and other Apple products to it as well.

The father told police he never gave his son the credit card information or authorized the use of the cards or phone account. He said he still has the physical cards and believes his son is using deceptive identification methods to get stores to authorize the sales.

The report did not provide the specific amount that Abu-Ghannam allegedly stole from his family.