A North Aurora senior citizen is accused of money laundering and drug trafficking but it's not true.
To clear her name, she needed to deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars into a new account opened for her.Morning Insider Lauren Victory takes us through the elaborate and expensive scam.
For almost two months, the 74-year-old had been disappearing for hours at a time. Her family thought she was sick and kept it a secret to go get treatment. Instead, Schmuhl was visiting different bitcoin machines to convert chunks of her life savings to the digital currency. Hall said he worked for Homeland Security. He provided her a badge number and a warrant case number, telling Schmuhl to call police if she didn't believe him. But if she did call, 'I better take my lawyer with me because I'm going to be arrested.'
When she couldn't convert any more of her cash to Bitcoin, Hall convinced her to use her credit cards to buy gift cards. The rationale there? That with a new social security number she might have difficulty opening credit cards because of no credit history. So, she should hit her credit limits now and she'll get the money back later.
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