The FBI says the elderly were targeted in scams.
PHOENIX — The FBI Phoenix is giving new details about a scam that has resulted in several Arizonans losing their life savings. It's known as the“The problem is, they target the elderly," the Assistant Special Agent in Charge with FBI Phoenix Daniel Mayo said. “There's a serious human element to this. We need to address that.”
Then, before you know it, you're talking to an imposter claiming to be a customer support representative. “The longer you wait in the cyber world to take action and report it, the more worse off of a chance it is that we can help you," Mayo said."But we dig down in there. We help work with the victim to ensure that we're identifying these individuals via court orders and things like that to track them down. The unfortunate thing here is that a lot of these guys hide overseas and outside of the United States as jurisdiction.
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