Rockview state police probing two scams with a loss of $9,700
BELLEFONTE, PA – Rockview state police on Sunday released information on two recent scams in the Bald Eagle valley area of Centre County.
The loss was $8,000, police said, when an elderly Port Matilda area woman was scammed out of $8,000. The victim, age 84, lived at Wagner Lane, Huston Township. She told police she had been contacted by phone last Thursday morning, the caller posing as the woman’s nephew and seeking bail money. She then got a call by another unknown individual posing as her nephew’s attorney. He instructed the woman to hand the cash to a privately coordinated courier who would be stopping by her house later Thursday to pick up the money.
The victim told police she went to her bank, took out $8,000 in cash and went home to hand off the money to the courier. She said that afternoon she provided the courier with the money. She said he was a black male, about 30 years old with dreadlocks and had arrived at her residence on foot.
Police said anyone with information on the case should contact them.
The second scam incident occurred on Friday. That incident occurred on Summit Hill Road in Curtin Townsip, the victim a 50-year-old female with a Howard address. Police said $1,700 was taken from her bank account; no other information was immediately provided.
