QUEENS — A Rego Park woman is out $10,000 after a scammer told her that her daughter had been incarcerated and she had to give him the money to get her out of jail, police said.
The 58-year-old victim was playing with her grandchildren in a neighborhood park last Wednesday around noon when the swindler approached her, authorities said.
The man told her that he was a friend of her daughter and that she got in trouble and was jailed. In order to have her released, the woman had to give him $10,000 and sign “release papers," police said.
The man walked with her to a TD Bank at 92-25 Queens Blvd., near the Long Island Expressway in Rego Park, where she withdrew the money, according to the NYPD.
Investigators are checking surveillance cameras at the bank to see whether they captured the man’s image, police said.
