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.
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…
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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. more ›