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Sharon Bobby
Police & Fire
Elderly Berks Man Scammed Out Of $194K On Facebook: Police
A Berks County man was defrauded out of more than $194,000 of dollars by a scammer on Facebook, according to authorities. The victim, a 65-year-old Hamburg resident, was befriended on the social networking site by a user posting under the name Sharon Bobby, state police said in a release. Over a period of weeks, investigators said the scammer worked to earn the victim's trust before asking his help to "pay for the release of a large amount of gold as an inheritance from her late father in the United Kingdom," officials wrote. "Through many months of communication through text m…