An Athens woman was recently lured into a scam that is designed to manipulate a person’s fear that a family member is in immediate trouble.
The scam, sometimes called the grandparent scam because it targets an older member of a family, has been perpetrated for years in Georgia and other states.
This scam occurred on Jan. 16, when the 72-year-old woman received a telephone call from a person she believed was her daughter, according to the report filed with Athens-Clarke police.
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