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Police Investigating Scam After Man Sent $8K In Cash To Suffolk Home Police Investigating Scam After Man Sent $8K In Cash To Suffolk Home
Police Investigating Scam After Man Sent $8K In Cash To Suffolk Home Police have asked the public for information after a 75-year-old man sent more than $8,000 in cash to a Long Island home because he was targeted by scammers. Southampton Village Police were notified that the New Mexico resident shipped $8,500 to a Southampton home because he thought he was a lottery winner and needed to pay fees to collect his prize, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. SCPD said officers waited at the home after the package was delivered at about 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, but no one came to retrieve it. Authorities asked anyone with information or who …

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