Scammer Takes $15,000 from 2 Elderly Victims

A scammer took a combined $15,000 from two elderly residents who thought they were aiding a fraud investigation, police said.

The victims were an 84-year-old woman and a 90-year-old man, 6News' Ericka Flye reported.

The woman, newly widowed, said the pain the scammer put her through is almost too much to bear.

"You wouldn't believe what I've been through now," said the woman, who didn't want to be identified. "I think sometimes I cannot stand anymore."

The woman said a man called her and said he was a bank fraud investigator. He told her that someone tried to withdraw $6,000 from her Chase account and that he needed help in the investigation.

The woman said that the man told her to write a voided check for $7,500 and that it would be cashed in marked bills.