70-Year-Old Milwaukee Woman Scammed Out of $38.5K by ‘Fake FBI Agent’ Impersonator

Zack Love
5 min readNov 5, 2022

A Wisconsin woman is fooled by a scammer pretending to be an FBI agent that told her the federal government was after her money. It was a lie.

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Senior citizens should be on high alert for scammers impersonating government officials.

One innocent senior woman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that has worked in the same grocery store for the last 25 years, has lost a lot of her hard-earned money after one man impersonates an FBI agent.

A 70-Year-Old Senior Milwaukee Woman Took a Scam Phone Call

Jan Jackson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin took a phone call recently that changed her life forever, for the worse.

WISN 12 News reported that Jan Jackson received a phone call in September 2022 that she now regrets.

She answered the phone and a man said he was an FBI agent, and he was calling because there was a warrant out for her arrest for drug abuse, money laundering, and theft.

Jan Jackson told WISN 12 News:

“He kept saying that he was looking out for my best interest,” Jackson said. “(He said) there was a warrant out for my arrest, that…

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Zack Love

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