Family members said an Orange County man in his 80s lost tens of thousands of dollars in an elaborate scam involving a fake call from the Irvine chief of police.
This case does have a lot of red flags, but a lot of people don’t recognize those red flags, especially many seniors who scams like this seem to target.
In this case, the scam started with a text message. “This was definitely a unique case where multiple people worked in concert with one another to make this scam more believable,” said Irvine Police Department spokesperson Ziggy Azarcon.
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