Three Accused of Extorting $100,000 from Elderly Woman

By Stephen T. Watson NEWS STAFF REPORTER

Three people used charm, lies and threats to persuade an elderly Buffalo woman to give them more than $100,000 before they were arrested this week, according to Buffalo police.
Possibly as far back as 2002, the three became acquainted with the victim and came up with a variety of reasons why she needed to give them thousands of dollars at a time from her bank account.
Their hard-luck tales turned to threats of violence if the flow of money stopped, and the scheme ended only after Erie County Adult Protective Services alerted police.
“They befriended her in the neighborhood, and she trusted them,” said Michael J. DeGeorge, Buffalo Police Department spokesman. “They would keep coming to her for large sums of money.”


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