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Florida Deputy Saves 93-Year-Old’s $600K Life Savings From Gold Scam
The sheriff’s office said the gold vendor canceled the transaction and returned the full amount after deputies intervened in a fraud case.
- A 93-year-old Martin County, Florida, man recovered his entire $600,000 life savings after Deputy Jasmaine McKinney intervened to stop a gold bar scam and secured a full refund from the vendor.
- Scammers posing as Federal Trade Commission officials contacted the victim last month, claiming his bank account was compromised and instructing him to withdraw $600,000 to purchase gold for protection.
- When the victim became suspicious and visited his bank, personnel recognized potential fraud and alerted the Martin County Sheriff's Office; McKinney immediately contacted the gold company to cancel the transaction.
- "You can definitely tell he felt like a victim. It was just written all over him," McKinney told WPBF in West Palm Beach, capturing the victim's visible relief when funds returned to his account.
- The Martin County Sheriff's Office warns residents never to provide personal or financial information over the phone, noting that deputies recently saved another elderly man from a similar $98,000 gold scam at a local bank.
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