Con Man Scams 86-Year-Old

December 15, 2010
Article Written by: James Weldon

http://www.nsnews.com/news/scams+year/3980663/story.html

     Shortly after reading this post I was extremely shocked to see how someone could do this to an 86 year old. It saddens to me to know that people are becoming so desperate for money that they are willing to scam an 86 year old. The man has been suspected of coning the women into thinking he was relative needing money for repairs. He had taken her to the bank where she withdrew 800$ and “pocketed the money and vanished.” Police are still trying to catch the suspect described as a “Caucasian man in his mid-40s.” Investigators now believe that he may be associated to several other scams that were recently reported. Are people this desperate to pocket money? This isn’t the only article that I’ve read where people have drastically stolen money in the most frantic ways. This poor innocent woman now has to live with guilt of believing this man being her “nephew”. This just shows that you can’t trust anyone with there word since almost always it proves to be a scam in the end. What has our society come too?