Billerica Police, bank manager foil fraud attempt

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Billerica Police, bank manager foil fraud attempt

BILLERICA — It probably seemed too good to be true for this 75-year-old woman. And it turns out it was. The Billerica Police said a woman was the target of a scam that included a claim from fraudsters that she was the recipient of a $220,000 cash prize. The police and an alert manager at a local TD Bank, however, foiled the fraud attempt before the woman lost thousands of dollars. The incident unfolded on Tuesday, when a branch manager from the …