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PENNSYLVANIA (WENY) \u2014 Be on the lookout for an elaborate scam forcing people to turn over their life savings in gold.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania State Police have been investigating the scam since early\u00a0September, when they intercepted a gray Honda carrying around $200,000 in gold bars on I-80.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The scam works by first appearing as a pop-up on a victim’s computer.\u00a0They are then contacted by people claiming to be federal officials. They say that the victim’s identity\u00a0or social security number has been connected to criminal activity and that their bank accounts or personal information has been compromised.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finally, the scammers have the victim withdraw money from their accounts and purchase gold\u00a0bars or coins, then turn the gold over to a ‘courier’ for safekeeping.\u00a0Over the past few months, this has taken the form of the victim meeting scammers driving a\u00a0silver\u00a02025\u00a0Honda\u00a0Accord and handing over the gold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is absolutely no legitimate federal investigation that requires you to buy gold and then give it away.<\/p>\n
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PSP has determined that almost $6.5 million\u00a0has been stolen so far, and that the amount could be even higher.\u00a0They have determined incidents that have occurred in Maryland, Washington, and throughout Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
If you or anyone you know has had this happen to them, PSP asks that you reach out and let them know\u00a0so they can work to resolve the theft.\u00a0You can contact PSP Trooper Eric Dreisbach at 570-560-0625 with any information about the scam.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WENY) \u2014 Be on the lookout for an elaborate scam forcing people to turn over their life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,28,30,29,1224],"class_list":["post-299032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-crime","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}