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A 25-year-old Indian man is locked up without bail after swindling an 80-year-old Hawaii woman out of $137,000 in gold bars using a chilling scam: a fake Apple Support alert followed by a phony cop pressuring her to buy gold to “protect” her money. She handed over nine bars at a mall for just $1—only to realize she’d been ripped off. Authorities in Hawaii and federal agents teamed up to catch him. Another suspect, allegedly working with him under a different name, faces similar charges in Montana after tricking a woman into selling her assets for $200K in gold. These scams prey on the elderly with urgency and fear—fake tech alerts and fake cops are their tools. If convicted, the main suspect could face 20 years. A powerful warning: never rush to act on unsolicited messages demanding cash or gold, especially from strangers.

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