Fake cop scams seniors out of nearly half a million dollars with faux ‘sting operations’ | The Raw Story: Police in Washington state are searching for a man who they say has scammed seniors out of nearly a half a million dollars by pretending to be a police officer, recruiting unsuspecting victims for faux “sting operations” involving large cash transfers.
It begins as a phone scam, police told The Seattle Post Intelligencer. Introducing himself as either Sgt. Drumbowski or Capt. Jack Truska, the conman preys mainly on elderly women with claims of a counterfeit money investigation that he needs help with.
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A similar con was going around a few years ago. The con men would look for "old-fashioned" women's names in the phone book, guessing they were elderly widows. It got so bad, police asked local banks to do whatever they could to talk older women out of withdrawing large sums of money.
It takes a pretty low person to prey on the elderly.
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