WARSAW, Poland: An alert tax driver prevented a scam in which an elderly woman would have lost the equivalent of about US$36,000 (RM167,224) for a phony bailout of relatives from jail, police in southeastern Poland said.

According to a police statement, a caller in the city of Rzeszow instructed the driver last week to collect a package from an elderly woman and deliver it to an address that would be sent to him. He was to be paid 2,000 zlotys (RM2,388) for the delivery.