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Heartbreaking: Phone Scammers Steal $22,500 From 80-Year-Old Tenafly Woman
Heartless phone scammers stole $22,000 from an 80-year-old Tenafly woman by claiming her computer was hacked and her banking information was compromised, police said.
Claiming to be from “Apple technical support,” the thieves called each night for five nights, getting the woman to buy GooglePlay gift cards in $500 allotments at various stores to cover the “investigation,” Capt. Michael deMoncada said.
Once they got her to provide the numbers from one batch of cards, they told her she had to buy more, deMoncada said.
Eventually, they convinced her to buy 45 cards, he said.
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