A 96-year-old Seal Beach woman was scammed out of thousands of dollars—she believes by hypnosis—in one of the more recent online scams targeting the elderly.
Seal Beach police, last week, warned of a “significant uptick in financial scams and fraud crimes, primarily targeted at our senior citizen population,” and the elderly woman was one of the latest victims, according to a press release from officials.
According to authorities, she was scammed in April for $6,000.
Wilmoth told KCAL news in an interview June 20 she was using her computer when a yellow blinking light took over her screen, and then a loud woman’s voice began shouting and telling her to keep it on….