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Police Recover $49K Taken From Bay Shore Resident In Scam Police Recover $49K Taken From Bay Shore Resident In Scam
Police Recover $49K Taken From Bay Shore Resident In Scam Police recovered nearly $50,000 that was taken from a Long Island man in a scam earlier this week. An 89-year-old Melville resident called a number he found on the Internet on Wednesday, Aug. 7, at approximately 1:30 p.m. to help him with a computer password problem.  The person on the phone convinced him that his bank accounts had been hacked and that he needed to remove his money from the bank, according to Suffolk County Police. The victim was instructed to lie about why he withdrew his money and was told that the bank officials were involved in the theft.  The…

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by Joe Lombardi
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'Coordinated Scam': Police Intercept Monetary Exchange Targeting North Amityville Woman 'Coordinated Scam': Police Intercept Monetary Exchange Targeting North Amityville Woman
'Coordinated Scam': Police Intercept Monetary Exchange Targeting North Amityville Woman A suspect has been nabbed in connection with a computer scam that defrauded a Long Island woman of thousands of dollars.  Detectives said they believe it's a coordinated scheme involving multiple people. According to Suffolk County Police, a 65-year-old North Amityville resident received an alert on her computer informing her to contact Apple Support.  The woman called the number and was informed that her bank accounts had been hacked, and she had been charged $12,000.  To halt the reported withdrawal and fix the purported hack, she agreed to meet a courier a…

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by Joe Lombardi
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$5,000 Cash Package Intercepted On Long Island, Part Of Scam: Police $5,000 Cash Package Intercepted On Long Island, Part Of Scam: Police
$5,000 Cash Package Intercepted On Long Island, Part Of Scam: Police Police believe the woman who sent it was scammed. A package sent from nearly 180 miles away was intercepted by Suffolk County police on Wednesday, April 26 at 11:40 a.m., the department reported. Inside the package, which was wrapped like a present, detectives found $5,000 cash. The shipment was sent by a 79-year-old woman from Olyphant, Pennsylvania, who reportedly told police she sent the package after she received a call directing her to mail the money to an address in Coram. The money is being returned to the victim. According to police, the woman did not provide any further info…

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by Sophie Grieser
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Police Warn Of Scams After Intercepting Cash Shipments On Long Island Police Warn Of Scams After Intercepting Cash Shipments On Long Island
Police Warn Of Scams After Intercepting Cash Shipments On Long Island Police are investigating two scams after intercepting shipments of thousands of dollars sent to addresses on Long Island. The Suffolk County Police Department reported that in the first case, a man contacted a 77-year-old Oklahoma woman on Tuesday, March 15, and claimed her grandson was arrested for running a red light in Kansas. The woman was told to send $4,000 to an address in Huntington Station so she could pay her grandson's bail, SCPD reported.  In the second case, a 66-year-old Maryland man received an email that said his computer had been infected with a virus and tech support…

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by Nicole Valinote
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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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by Nicole Valinote
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Long Island Man Posing As Amazon Employee Attempted To Scam Nearly $20K Long Island Man Posing As Amazon Employee Attempted To Scam Nearly $20K
Long Island Man Posing As Amazon Employee Attempted To Scam Nearly $20K A Long Island man was arrest for attempting to scam nearly $20,000 from an out-of-state resident. The victim, an 89-year-old man who lives in Jackson, Mississippi, was contacted by an individual claiming to be an Amazon employee, Suffolk County Police said.  The individual attempted to convince the victim thousands of dollars had been inadvertently refunded to his account from Amazon, according to police. The victim was directed to send $19,650 to a business believed to be Amazon, located on Sunrise Highway in Copiague.   After sending the cash, the Suffolk County Poli…

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by Joe Lombardi
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13 Nabbed In $1 Million Long Island Tax Fraud Scheme 13 Nabbed In $1 Million Long Island Tax Fraud Scheme
13 Nabbed In $1 Million Long Island Tax Fraud Scheme Thirteen people were arrested and charged on a 108-count indictment on Wednesday for their roles in a massive tax fraud scheme that involved at least 10 suspects on Long Island. Prosecutors in Suffolk County announced on Wednesday, Sept. 23 that they’ve charged 13 people in a scheme that net them more than $1 million by stealing personal identification to create new identifies that were used to get loans and credit cards. The scheme targeted at least 20 people on Long Island and more than a dozen banks. It is alleged that the fraudsters stole Social Security numbers from vulnerable parties…

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by Zak Failla