Crime & Safety

Ridgewood Senior Citizen Loses $2K in Lottery Scam, Cops Say

75-year-old was told he needed to wire money in order to collect his winnings, police say.

A 75-year-old Ridgewood man was scammed out of $1985.95 over the weekend after he received a phone call telling him that he had won a lottery, Ridgewood Police announced in a release Tuesday.

According to cops, someone called the Bartell Place resident Saturday telling him that he had won a lottery, and needed to wire the money via Western Union in order to collect his winnings. 

The senior wired the money, and then became suspicious when the supposed lottery officials requested additional funds, police said.

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Cops say they have not identified the scammers, but that the Ridgewood detective bureau is investigating the incident further.


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