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Yash Shah
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'FTC Worker' Scams Long Island Victim Out Of $390K In Gold Bars, Police Say
A scammer posing as a government employee conned a Long Island victim out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, police allege. Nassau County Police arrested Yash Shah, age 25, of Baldwin, on suspicion of grand larceny on Tuesday, July 16. According to detectives, in early June 2023 a 73-year-old New Hyde Park man received a notification on his computer telling him that his device had been compromised and that he needed to contact the phone number shown. When the victim called the number, someone claiming to work for the Federal Trade Commission instructed him to buy six gold bars totaling n…