WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office says a Sedgwick County woman was scammed out of $255,000 in a Social Security scam.
It began in May, according to the sheriff’s office, when an 84-year-old woman was contacted by a man who claimed to be an FBI agent, informing her that her Social Security number had been stolen and was being used at various banks in a fraud scheme. The scammer pressured the woman into liquidating her assets to gold and handing them over in three separate transactions to people she was told were undercover FBI agents.
Her family contacted the sheriff’s office after learning that all of her assets had been depleted. Investigators then contacted the FBI. On Sept. 17, detectives, deputies, FBI agents, and troopers with the Kansas Highway Patrol, including their Air Support Section, conducted a sting with a fake fourth transaction with the two men who had previously posed as undercover FBI agents…