An 82-year-old woman in Ponte Vedra Beach is asking for the community’s help after she was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through a Facebook scheme that leveraged AI to pull off the fraud.
Maurine Meleck doesn’t have family near her Ponte Vedra Beach apartment, aside from her 28-year-old grandson Josh, whom she has raised since he was six.
She said the lack of local connections and support has led to her spending a lot of time online, including on social media sites like Facebook.
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“And I came across what I thought at the time was a doctor that I really admired,” said Meleck…