Small Town Misfit

Columbia, SC
Don’t be so gullible that you get swindled out of $15,000, twice. A 77-year-old man said that on Nov. 9 a woman and a 40-year-old man dressed as police officers came to his Torwood Road home and referenced a past incident involving the man getting swindled out of $15,000. Although the man hadn’t reported being scammed to the police because he was afraid of being ridiculed, the two “cops” told him they had made an arrest and needed money from him to match the money they found on the suspects. So with their heads in the clouds, the man and his wife drove with the female “officer” to a bank on Huger Street and he took out $15,000 while the female “cop” waited in the car. The flimflam pair told the man they would call him within the hour to identify the suspects and they would give him back the money from both incidents. But they never did call, so now the man is out $30,000 and facing ridicule for being gullible, again.

Found in the Free Times

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