Scammer swindles New Jersey grandmother out of thousands of dollars by posing as her grandson
An 82-year-old woman in Gloucester County, NJ said half of her savings are now gone after scammers pulled on her heartstrings.
GLOUCESTER, N.J. – An 82-year-old woman in Gloucester County, NJ said half of her savings are now gone after scammers pulled on her heartstrings.
Libby Maurer of Deptford Township said she received a phone call on September 16. She believed it was her grandson on the line.
“I was so emotional that I didn’t think straight at all. This person was hysterical crying on the phone and said I was in a car accident, I broke my nose and I have a split lip,” said Maurer. “You need to call my lawyer, you need to get me out, don’t tell anybody.”
Maurer said the caller explained he was in a car crash with a woman who is eight months pregnant and, as a result, in jail.
The caller instructed Maurer to dial a phone number for a public defender. The man on the other line said bail was $80-thousand and she would need to pay ten percent in cash to bail her grandson out of jail.
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“I had fallen a couple weeks before, I said I haven’t driven in two weeks and I’m on oxygen 24-7, and he said you are the only one that can get it, and I was going to give him my credit card and he said no it has to be cash,” said Maurer.
Deptford Township Police detectives are investigating and said a key piece of evidence is surveillance video that shows the…
