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Police: He Said They Wanted to Reimburse Her. Instead, He Took $9,000

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A Darien woman was scammed out of $9,000 through a more sophisticated scam than usual, involving a caller who convinced her to download a program to her computer. Darien police described what happened this way:

On Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 24, the woman, a Long Neck Point Road resident, told police she believed she had been scammed. She said that she had received a phone call from a male (when the call came, police didn’t say). The male said he worked for a subsidiary of Microsoft and that his company owed her money as a reimbursement for computer software she had bought.

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Phone Scammers Call the Wrong Guy

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Scammers may call anyone on the phone, and they particularly find retired people good targets to fool — but they wasted their time in this case. Darien Police Lt. Ron Bussell, commander of the Detective Division, has announced his retirement, but it hasn’t taken place yet. He’s scheduled to retire from the department at the end of the month. Bussell said he just recently happened to receive a call from a scammer who seemed to have a new wrinkle in an old kind of scam. The caller identified himself as being from the “Marshal Service” from somewhere in upstate New York.