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

5 min readNov 5, 2022

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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.

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