{"id":427231,"date":"2026-10-14T03:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427231\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T03:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:18:12","slug":"police-fake-fbi-agent-scams-82-year-old-central-florida-woman-out-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427231\/","title":{"rendered":"POLICE: Fake FBI agent scams 82-year-old Central Florida woman out of thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\"  loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/XJRSELQZTJGRRCYJ22XBLWWC7A.png\"\/>Investigators released this image of the woman they&#8217;re searching for. (Windermere Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Detectives are looking for a woman responsible for scamming an 82-year-old out of thousands of dollars, according to the Windermere Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">In a release, police said the incident happened on Tuesday, when the woman \u2014 posing as a courier for the FBI \u2014 picked up a shoebox containing $18,400 from the victim in Windermere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cThe suspect arrived and left the victim\u2019s residence in the silver Toyota, also pictured below,\u201d the release reads.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5XUDM2RKWVFTBMUSJXAIJA6PRQ.png\"\/>An image of the silver Toyota (Windermere Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">According to police, the pickup was arranged by at least one suspect posing as an FBI agent who contacted the victim by phone and scammed her into believing they were investigating bank fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Anyone with information on the identity of the woman pictured at the top of this story is urged to contact Sgt. John Allen at (407) 909-5306 or jallen@windermere.gov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">No additional information has been provided at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorAnthony Talcott headshot<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791947892_273_f419bf27-87f9-491c-833f-62836dad10d2.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/team\/MD8EZ7SZ4M3DA2IC1LP1S3T9LX\/\" title=\"View Anthony Talcott&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Talcott<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Anthony, a graduate of the University of Florida, joined ClickOrlando.com in April 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators released this image of the woman they&#8217;re searching for. (Windermere Police Department) ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Detectives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,28,30,29,1335,5854,2643],"class_list":["post-427231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-orange-county","tag-scams","tag-windermere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}