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'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something NJ Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something NJ Victim Sends Scammers $12,000
'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something NJ Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 A Glen Rock woman in her 80s wrapped $12,000 in cash and sent it to phone scammers who convinced her that a relative in trouble needed it, authorities said. One of the scammers called the victim claiming to be the relative and then put an accomplice posing as an attorney on the phone, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. The “attorney” told the victim that the relative was in jail and needed the cash sent by UPS to an address in Memphis, TN, Ackermann said. Last Tuesday, the woman sent the package, which UPS tracking confirmed was delivered to the Memphis address shortly before 10 a.m.…

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by Jerry DeMarco