The all-day scam: How a US woman gave up US$10,000, her therapy license exploited

The ordeal turned into an all-day process for the woman who says the scam artists kept her on the phone for hours and hours, including as she drove to the bank, multiple stores and eventually, the sheriff’s office. — Dreamstime/TNS

Scammers posing on the phone as “calm and cool” sheriff’s officers earlier last month conned a 31-year-old Cabarrus County woman out of US$10,120 (RM44,447), the woman told The Charlotte Observer.

The ordeal turned into an all-day process for the woman who says the scam artists kept her on the phone for hours and hours, including as she drove to the bank, multiple stores and eventually, the sheriff’s office.