ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Buford woman has been convicted of scamming seniors out of around $1 million, the Gwinnett County district attorney said.
Starting in 2021, Fataoumata Keita, 48, scammed seniors as part of a larger operation. She convinced her victims their computers were malfunctioning and that they needed to buy antivirus software.
They would then be directed to a 1-800 number, where conspirators posing as customer service representatives told the victims to mail checks to a post office box in Buford. Keita would then pick up the money and distribute it to her co-conspirators…