SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan. – The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office, working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrested two men Sept. 17, in connection with a social security scam that defrauded an 84- year-old Kansas woman of more than $255,000.
The investigation began in May when the victim received a phone call from a man posing as an FBI agent, according to Sedgwick Sheriff’s Department spokesman Branden Stitt.
The caller convinced the woman her social security number had been compromised and was being used at numerous banks. Believing her savings were at risk and after being pressured by the man, she liquidated her assets into gold and handed them over in three separate transactions to individuals she thought were undercover FBI agents.
Detectives believe the gold was transferred to overseas accounts…