MOREAU — A welfare check on an elderly woman on Friday thwarted a scam to bilk her out of $20,000, according to the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office.
According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, the woman received an email from a purported PayPal account charging her for a purchase she did not make. When she called a number in the email to resolve the matter, she reached a scammer, who convinced the woman to download a remote-access app on her computer and cellphone. The scammer then told her they had refunded her more money than was necessary, and convinced her to hide $20,000 in books and ship the package to them in California.
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