ALBANY – An Albany woman has been charged in connection with a lottery scam involving a senior in Kentucky, according to the Albany Police Department.
Alicia Stanley, 35, is accused of scamming a 92-year-old woman in Glasgow, Kentucky, police stated in a news release. The 92-year-old told the Glasgow Police Department she received phone calls between March 3 and 5 from Stanley stating she had won the lottery, according to the account shared by police.
The senior was told she needed to pay taxes via cashier’s checks to receive the lottery winnings, the police explained. She then sent two cashier’s checks, for $10,232 and $2,800, to an address in Albany, police said…