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In April, a Billings 85-year-old woman began sending a scammer large sums of money after receiving suspicious emails that her PayPal account had fraudulent activity.
Over the course of several weeks, the woman ended up losing an estimated $130,000 in the alleged scam.
BILLINGS — Elder fraud scams are taking the nation by storm.
Last year, the FBI reported that over 147,000 elderly Americans lost more than $4.8 billion in elder-abuse related scams.
Here in Billings, those scams are prevalent as well. One 85-year-old Billings woman has become the victim of a PayPal scam, resulting in the loss of $130,000 over a month.
