The Newburyport Police Department says an officer recently helped prevent a woman from losing over $10,000 as part of a scam.
On Tuesday, a 75-year-old woman approached a police officer at a gas station on Storey Avenue and said that she believed she may be getting scammed.
The woman said that someone who claimed to be a government agent called her, recited personal information about her and told her to deposit money into a Bitcoin ATM machine…