Family Creates Donation Page For Grandma Duped in Phone Scam
A local Newtown Square family creates a donation page to help give back the life savings an 84-year-old Marple woman recently lost from a phone scam.
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BROOMALL–A local Newtown Square family has created a donation page on ChipIn to collect money for the 84-year-old Marple Township woman recently duped in a phone scam.
Tiffany Lyon Dimeo posted on Marple Newtown Patch's Facebook page: "During this holiday season, let's prove there are more kind hearts than evil ones in the world today!"
After reading about the recent police blotter story on Marple Newtown Patch, Dimeo was compelled to help give back the woman's $3,697.50 savings she lost in the phone scam, and asks the community for help.
She wrote the following on the donation page:
"In a recent edition of the Marple Newtown Blotter, I read an article about an 84 year old woman scammed out of her life savings. It brings me sadness when I read about the awful things people go through simply because they are kind hearted. Instead of letting the year close on this woman's life with this burden, let's make a difference and show her that there are more kind hearts out there than evil and rotten ones! Please contribute to this ChipIn and make a difference for this loving Grandmother!"
The phone scam involved the impersonation of the woman's grandson in need of money after getting into a serious car accident in Colorado. The woman wired the "grandson" nearly her entire life savings in order to clear the grandson's name and release him from jail.
Michael Dwells
1:41 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
I feel terrible for the senior who lost her savings. It must have been devastating to realize she lost all her money for nothing. I have a read a similar case reported at http://www.callercenter.com where a grandpa lost a total of $40, 000 to a scammer who claimed to be his grandson stranded in another country. Terrible.