‘I thought I was actually safeguarding the money’: Man scammed out of $40k shares red flags

Local woman scammed out of life savings

Local woman scammed out of life savingsScam artists conned an Albuquerque woman out of her entire life savings, more than $30,000. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Scam artists conned an Albuquerque woman out of her entire life savings, more than $30,000. Police say they see this exact same phishing scam all the time, and it’s something you can easily fall for too.  “They put the fear of God in me immediately, and I didn’t have time to think,” said Judy Hart…

‘I thought I was actually safeguarding the money’: Man scammed out of $40k shares red flags

The warnings are everywhere because the scams are happening all the time. And they happen all the time because they keep working. Just this year, Prince George’s County police said they believe county residents have been scammed out of about $1 million. In recent weeks, arrests have been made in two cases, but not before one victim lost about $700,000 and another man lost about $40,000. The two incidents were unrelated, but similar in their dece…