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International 'grandparent scheme' bilks seniors of $50,000

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Luis Alfonso Bisono Rodriguez , a citizen of the Caribbean nation living in Cleveland , was charged in Pennsylvania with working with partners in the Dominican Republic to defraud at least five victims of some $50,000 .

They called people as old as 91 and posed as a cast of characters ranging from the victim's children to attorneys to bail bondsmen.

Victims handed over up to $20,000 in envelopes labeled as "legal documents" to unsuspecting Uber and Lyft drivers , who drove the envelopes from Allegheny County , Pennsylvania , to Ohio .

The FBI reported last June that they recorded a double-digit increase in financial fraud targeting elder adults.

Federal prosecutors charged more than two dozen Canadian nationals in a massive scam that bilked more than $21 million from elderly people in more than 40 U.S. states.

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