80-year-old local woman scammed of $15K, suspect arrested: Police
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BAY VILLAGE, Ohio (WJW) — An 80-year-old Bay Village woman told police she was scammed out of $15,000 after tapping on strange pop-ups that began appearing on her iPad.
Detectives worked with authorities in California and Texas to recover most of the defrauded cash, and arrest a Chinese national suspected in the scam, according to a Bay Village police report.
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The fraud was reported on May 16, according to the report.
A woman told police that pop-ups for 'Apple Support' began appearing on her iPad, directing her to a link. A scammer then reached her by phone, directing her to send via UPS a total of $15,000 between two locations: Bakersfield, California, and Richardson, Texas.
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Law enforcement agencies in those cities joined the investigation, along with UPS and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to the report.
Authorities ultimately recovered $10,000 of the woman's money and arrested a Chinese national in Richardson, according to the report.
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