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‘The money’s gone’: Lancaster County woman lost $25,000 in fraud scheme

April 1, 2024 10:42 am
Nolan Dorn,

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A Lancaster County woman lost $25,000 in a fraud scheme, the sheriff’s office said Monday.

The victim called what she thought was a credit union’s fraud department after receiving a pop-up on her work computer.

Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said the scammer informed the victim that Russians had tried to seize over $27,000 from her account.

The victim also got a call from someone posing as Sheriff Terry Wagner regarding an attempted theft from her bank account.

The scammer told the victim to deposit $25,000 in bitcoin into a crypto account.

She stayed on the phone with the scammer during the transaction.

“As we have learned through a lot of these, the money’s gone, and this one was a major loss for her,” Houchin said.

Categories: Lancaster, News
Tags: bank account, credit union’s fraud department, crime, Crime. News, lancaster county news, lancaster county woman, russians, Scam, scam alert, Sheriff Terry Wagner, Terry Wagner
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