Scammers convinced the couple they needed to return money that was supposedly deposited into their account by accident, police said.
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Maine man accused of faking own death after defrauding VA of over $240K
Washington County resident Gregory Heimann, 51, was arrested in Missouri over a year after he disappeared, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
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Mount Desert Island schools defrauded of more than $1 million in cyber theft
The district learned about the fraud on Tuesday and has since disabled the compromised payment system, the superintendent says.