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Scammer Sunk By Car Full Of Fools Gold In Hadley Headed To Prison Then Deportation Scammer Sunk By Car Full Of Fools Gold In Hadley Headed To Prison Then Deportation
Scammer Sunk By Car Full Of Fools Gold In Hadley Headed To Prison Then Deportation A New Jersey scammer whose eyes were bigger than his brain when he tried to rob an Athol woman of more than $300,000 was sentenced on Wednesday, May 24, to a year in prison, after which he'll be deported, authorities said.  Gaurang Contractor, 38, a citizen of India living in Jersey City, NJ, tried to trick a Central Massachusetts woman into believing he was a DEA agent and she needed to convert her life savings into gold and give it to him for safekeeping, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said.  Contractor contacted the woman in August 2022 using the alias of "Oscar White," a Dr…

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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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