LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A rip-off in Ingham County has tricked residents out of a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars}, Ingham County Sheriff Scott Wriggelsworth introduced Thursday. Two residents, ages 70 and 81, have misplaced what the sheriff says are “jaw-dropping sums of money.”
The primary incident happened over ten days, when somebody referred to as a girl claiming to be from the Workplace of Inspector Normal. The scammer informed the sufferer that her checking account and bank cards have been going to be drained, advising her to withdraw all of her cash from the financial institution. After a number of days of steady stress, she did.
Impersonation scams up in Ingham County
The scammers then informed the girl to go to a neighborhood gold supplier and buy gold with the cash, which the sufferer additionally did. Wednesday, the scammer went to the sufferer’s home and retrieved the gold. They haven’t been seen or heard from since taking the gold, and the sheriff describes them as being two Hispanic males.
A second, comparable incident occurred Thursday, the place a scammer, over a number of days, satisfied a sufferer to withdraw all of her cash from the financial institution and provides it to him for safekeeping.
Ingham County Sheriff’s Workplace points rip-off alert
The scammer got here to the sufferer’s dwelling, the place she gave him the cash to “protect it,” and has not been seen or heard from since. The sheriff describes him as being an Asian man driving an older silver pickup truck.
Wrigglesworth says that no authorities physique or respected establishment would ever ask you for cash or your tackle over the telephone and that in the event you obtain any name that appears suspicious, inform somebody, akin to a liked one or native legislation enforcement.
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