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Car Full of Fools Gold Sinks NJ Scammer's Plan To Swindle Athol Woman: Feds Car Full of Fools Gold Sinks NJ Scammer's Plan To Swindle Athol Woman: Feds
Car Full of Fools Gold Sinks NJ Scammer's Plan To Swindle Athol Woman: Feds A Jersey City, NJ, man posing as a DEA agent attempted to scam an Athol woman out of more than $330,000 in a complicated grift involving non-existent drug dealers and a car loaded down with fake gold in a Texas Roadhouse parking lot, federal authorities said.  Gaurang Contractor, 38, an Indian national, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the charge of wire fraud, the US Attorney's Office announced on Friday, Dec. 9.  Investigators said Contractor contacted the woman in August and claimed to be a DEA agent named Oscar White. He told her that she was implicated…

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