Queens woman posed as a DEA agent to scam victim out of $46,000

A New York woman was arrested and extradited to Massachusetts for allegedly defrauding a Cape Cod victim out of $46,000, officials said Friday.

Yuxin Fu, 24, of Flushing, Queens, was arrested last week after fleeing the country for her alleged involvement in a fraud against a resident of Marston Mills, a village in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Fu was under investigation for an incident that occurred nearly two years ago. Investigators believe she posed as a member of the Drug Enforcement Agency and informed the victim that his Social Security was related to an investigation in Texas.

She then allegedly instructed the person to “transfer their account funds to a 'secure' government account to protect them from seizure,” Barnstable authorities said in a news release.

When the police became aware of the alleged fraud in December 2022, a lengthy investigation followed. After “several” search warrants, authorities issued an arrest warrant for her in June 2023.

However, authorities believed that Fu had fled the United States to China the previous month. After being wanted by police for more than a year, Fu was finally arrested last week.

She was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport on Sept. 23 while attempting to re-enter the country, officials said.

Fu was arraigned Friday in Barnstable District Court on charges of larceny over $1,200 and larceny of property over $1,200.

She is being held on $100,000 bail at the request of the Cape & Islands District Attorney's Office.