Scams have become more and more commonplace as the years go by. Obviously, the idea of scamming someone out of their money is nothing new, but with the advent of the internet they’ve become easier to pull off than ever before.
The elderly are always a common target, and one scammer in Upstate New York showed why we need to raise awareness of these scams to everyone.
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Running the Scam
Recently, 33 year-old Devin Zielinski was sentenced to up to six years in state prison for his (successful) attempt to scam an 87 year-old Albany man out of every penny he owned. Zielinski worked alongside Amber Diacetis, another Albany resident…