BANGOR (AP) — Bangor police are warning elderly residents of the city not to fall for the so-called “grandparent scam.”
Police say a city man in his 70s was bilked out of $7,000 last week by a con artist pretending to be his grandson who called him and said he was in jail in Spain and needed money.
Sgt. Paul Edwards said the con artist told the victim that vehicles were damaged during a drunken driving incident and he needed just over $7,000 wired to him quickly from the nearest Western Union outlet.
The victim described being worried sick and not thinking straight when he sent the money.
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