A gas station clerk is recounting the moment he helped prevent an elderly woman from becoming the victim of an elaborate scam that nearly cost her thousands of dollars.
PARK CITY — A gas station clerk is recounting the moment he helped prevent an elderly woman from being the victim of an elaborate scam that nearly cost her thousands of dollars out of her savings.At the Kimball Junction Chevron, whatever kinds of yummy snacks end up on the counter, chances are Edgar De La Merced knows the customer who is paying."Long time, no see!" he said enthusiastically. The two began laughing and fist-bumped each other.
"She was on speaker phone, and getting instructions on what to do with the Bitcoin machine," he explained.He asked a customer to ask her what she was doing. The woman told the other customer she was on the phone with her son. However, the "son," De La Merced explained, sounded much younger than someone who would be the son of a woman in her 70s. He also noticed the voice had a foreign accent, which also didn't seem like he'd be the woman's son.
The sheriff stopped the scammers from swindling the woman out of thousands of dollars. Summit County Sheriff's Sgt. Skyler Talbot said investigators discovered that the woman got an email claiming to be from PayPal. She called a number and thought she was talking to their fraud department. The sheriff and another deputy brought the woman back to her bank to deposit the money she had withdrawn.
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