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'Grandparent scam' costs elderly Florida woman over $700,000
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Scammers pretended to be the woman's granddaughter and pretended to be in legal trouble.
The scam occurred over the summer between April and August, and involved an 82-year-old woman, the Associated Press reports. The scammers told the woman that her granddaughter was in trouble.
According to the woman, she received a call from a woman claiming to be her granddaughter. The woman said that she had been in a car accident and needed money to get out of jail. A man then came on the call and claimed to be the woman’s lawyer.
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