HINGHAM − A con man hung up on police Friday after a 94-year-old woman who had been on the phone with him for more than three hours went to the police station instead of sending him her money.
Police said the woman had withdrawn money from her bank account and was told to stay on the phone while she went to deposit her money at a Weymouth ATM.
“The resident feared she would be robbed by someone waiting for her to arrive there and became suspicious,” police said in a news release. “She instead drove to the Hingham police station.”
Police said the Linden Ponds resident had received an email and alerts Friday morning notifying her that her bank account had been hacked.
“She called the phone number listed in the email and spoke with a man who told her that $1,200 had been stolen from her bank account,” police said.
The man directed her to a website, which might have allowed him to remotely access her computer, police said.
“During their conversation, the man told her she needed to go to her bank and withdraw $1,000,” police said. “The man specifically told her not to make withdrawal from the bank located inside Linden Ponds but instead go to another branch because staff at that bank would know the resident and likely recognize it as a scam.”