A man was recently arrested for swindling thousands from an elderly 92-year-old man in Central Florida in a romance scam.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested the man in connection with scamming the elderly man out of over $800,000.
In June 2022, the 92-year-old victim from Sun City Center was targeted in a bank and romance scam. He transferred thousands from his Fidelity account to his Wells Fargo account.
The money was depleted from this account to multiple individuals through Uphold, a cryptocurrency platform, peer-to-peer transactions, ATM withdrawals, point-of-sale transactions, and various other ways…