Actually, I've read one of this kind of scam that they mimic family members or near to it. Like someone tries to introduce him/herself that they know your relative and your relative involves in an accident and they need immediate money.
that's not what happened here as this scam went on for MONTHS.
Then, someone who posed as an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission contacted her and persuaded her to send sizable payments over several months to secure her winnings and pay storage fees for the car she won.
it was her own greed that did her in. so i don't really feel sorry for her. she could have bought 10 cars with the money she had and had hundreds of thousands of dollars left over.
A very sad story , How could someone scammed a lady with that age ? there are lots of people that they can victimized whom has more capacity in providing for themselves , but this woman ?
you're asking the wrong question. if YOU were a scammer trying to get people to send you bitcoin through an ATM machine, who do you think you would target? that's right, you would target people exactly like this lady who had no clue about anything. and usually that means older people, even elderly. you wouldn't care if it put them out on the streets. that would be THEIR problem. something they should have thought of before rolling the dice.
scammers want to target noobs. if they could target 7 year old children they would do that if it meant filling their pockets with bitcoin. no one is off limits. but 7 year old children don't have money so that's why they don't do that. but if they did you would see scammers befriending them and trying to get them to send them all their money just how it is...
