Five-thousand victims between the ages of 72 and 93 were duped out of a collective $35 million by scammers in the Dominican Republic in a "grandparent scam," the Department of Homeland Security.
Department of Homeland Security says 5,000 victims between the ages of 72 and 93 were duped out of a collective $35 million in a "grandparent scam" from the Dominican Republic.
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(WTAJ) — Charges were filed against 16 people who investigators said scammed elderly residents in Pennsylvania and other states from their headquarters in the Dominican Republic. According to the Justice Department, eleven men from the Dominican Republic were charged in a 19-count indictment with mail and wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to […]