'High-pressure tactics': Suspect scams Vancouver senior out of $12,000

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'High-pressure tactics': Suspect scams Vancouver senior out of $12,000
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Locals lost over $700,000 to scammers last year alone.

Locals lost over $700,000 to scammers last year alone.

On Jan. 30, an 81-year-old Vancouver man received a phone call from a man identifying himself as a police officer. The senior was told that he needed to provide $12,000 in bail money because his grandson had been arrested on drug charges. “The photo and home surveillance footage we’ve released today is of someone we believe posed as a courier in that incident, and stole thousands of dollars from an unsuspecting senior.

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