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Hackettstown Bank Teller Saves Man From Wiring $40K To Scammers Hackettstown Bank Teller Saves Man From Wiring $40K To Scammers
Hackettstown Bank Teller Saves Man From Wiring $40K To Scammers Not all heroes wear capes. A Hackettstown bank employee saved an 80-year-old man from wiring $40,000 to scammers who told him his vehicle had been found near the Mexican border with 22 pounds of cocaine. The man received multiple phone calls from scammers impersonating police officers who told him that a car belonging to him had been found in Texas near the Mexico border with blood stains and 22 pounds of cocaine around 4:20 p.m. last Friday, Hackettstown police said in a release. The scammers told the man that he would be arrested unless he wired $40,000 to the Office of the Inspector Gen…

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by Valerie Musson