SUDBURY – Posing as Sudbury Police Chief Scott Nix, a con man on Monday nearly convinced a local woman to empty her bank account, instructing her to send him the money via bitcoin or face jail time, authorities said.
Fortunately, the woman found out things weren’t right — she lost $4,500, instead of the “huge sum” the scammer demanded, Detective Lt. Wayne Shurling said Tuesday.
“We’ve been killed with these things (bitcoin scams),” Shurling said, noting that several people in the city have been scammed out of thousands of dollars.
In the latest scheme, a woman received a call from a party listed as “No Caller ID” on her phone.
