He said her daughter had been in a car crash. It was a scam.

Police are investigating a scammer who targeted an elderly Berkeley woman last month by claiming her daughter needed money to get out of jail.

The case began in December when the 91-year-old woman got a call from a stranger who said her daughter was in jail after hurting someone in a car wreck.

In the background, the woman “could hear someone … pretending to be her daughter,” Berkeley police wrote in court papers…

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