ORLANDO, Fla. – A man was arrested in Orlando after a 92-year-old was swindled out of over $800,000, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
In a release, deputies said that the elderly victim from Sun City Center had been targeted in a bank and romance scam back in June 2022.
At the time, he transferred thousands from his Fidelity account to his Wells Fargo account, and deputies said the money was taken out of that account via Uphold, a cryptocurrency platform, peer-to-peer transactions, ATM withdrawals, and point-of-sale transactions, among other methods…