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Akron detectives are urging residents to be alert after two senior citizens lost tens of thousands of dollars to a frightening scam.The seniors were first tricked online, and then the scammers took it a step further by showing up at Akron homes and stealing a total of $156,000.Two similar theft/deception reports were filed with Akron police this month.In an Aug. 6 report, a 75-year-old woman who lives in the Firestone Park neighborhood said she was scammed out of $70,000.
'It's completely devastating; $80,000, $70,000 — that could be everything that they've been able to save up for retirement,' said Devan Weckerly Lambert from the Better Business Bureau of Akron.Weckerly Lambert said more than 200 scams have been reported to the BBB's Scam Tracker this year, but nothing quite like what Akron police are currently investigating with these cases.
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