A 22-year-old man is behind bars in Broward County, accused of preying on senior citizens through a common bank phone scam.
Investigators said that one of the victims, a 74-year-old man from Alabama, was duped into sending more than $20,000 after receiving a call from someone claiming to work for Wells Fargo’s fraud department.
The caller told the victim that someone was attempting to withdraw a large sum from his account and instructed him to verify the balance, withdraw the money, and send it by FedEx to addresses in Deerfield Beach and Pompano Beach…