âRecently two additional scams have been reported.
âA case in Orion Township involving a 78-year-old woman resulted in her losing over $29,000 to scammers. This scam involved a call placed to the victim claiming to be an Amazon employee verifying the victim had purchased $8,000 in Apple products. When the purchase was disputed, the employee claimed to transfer the caller to the Michigan State Police (MSP) to make a report. The person claiming to be a trooper from MSP told the victim she must make a report, which included giving this alleged trooper all of her banking information. The victim became suspicious and asked for a phone number for the alleged investigator and was provided a legitimate MSP phone number, but with instructions not to call the number as whomever would answer may not be familiar with her case. The victim was then transferred to an alleged US Treasury agent who told her she was a victim of identity theft. In the span of three days, the victim was told