The deceitful bonds of kinship have been exploited once again as the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office warns its residents about a troubling series of scams targeting the elderly, as detailed in recent social media posts concerning two distinct yet similarly cruel cases. In one heartless scenario, a grandmother was tricked into handing over $7,656 to a supposed attorney after receiving a call from an individual fraudulently claiming to be her injured grandson—a scam completed by a pickup from a black female in a small red car using an agreed-upon password.
In a separate incident, a grandfather was swindled out of $11,300 after a scammer, posing as his grandson’s attorney for a DUI charge, convinced him to withdraw cash and later purchase $3,500 worth of gift cards from the LuLu Lemon store in Westlake; an unknown black male claiming to be a bail bond agent orchestrated the in-person cash pickup before another call strong-armed the elderly man into the additional gift card expenses, according to the statements from the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office…