If it seems like scams have become more widespread in the past couple of years, you aren’t wrong. A Wisconsin couple was scammed out of nearly $600,000 from March to May this year in an elaborate nationwide gold bar scam.
A costly impersonation scam
This impersonation scheme serves as a warning to people nationwide when it comes to handing off packages, especially sensitive and/or expensive packages.
The couple from Wisconsin thought they were communicating with a person who worked for the Federal Trade Commission. The two were told that they needed to send their gold via courier packages to clear them in an identity theft investigation.
Both the identity theft investigation and the scheme of sending gold through a courier were bogus. The couple sent almost $600,000 worth of gold at controlled package handoffs.
Police arrest two suspects
Racine County deputies have arrested two people, Carissa Snow and Reese Lightner, who face federal prosecution as part of a nationwide gold bar scam…