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Sixteen individuals have been charged in connection with a "grandparent scam" in which hundreds of elderly people were defrauded out of millions of dollars, said U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.
It's a scam that's designed to play on grandparents' heart strings, and the latest version of it has prompted a national awareness campaign as well as consumer alerts from two state attorneys general.
New warnings are being issued across the country about a scam that targets grandparents who are tricked into believing a grandchild is in trouble. The most recent warnings were issued this week ...
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".
The grandparent scam As it turns out, Kimbler disrupted what law enforcement calls the “grandparent scam.” The scam goes back years, with the FBI receiving reports about it since at least 2008.
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Grandparent scam. A telephone call is made to an elderly person with a family member who is supposedly in some kind of trouble, usually claiming to be a grandson or ...
The grandparent scheme has seemed to supplant the IRS scam in prevalence.Quinn said that scam was more regularly seen six or seven years ago. "They would call and say it's the IRS. You owe money.