Hackers impersonating representatives from Amazon and the Federal Bureau of Investigation scammed an older Nebraska couple out of $250,000. The fraud began as a simple email.
The victims, aged 82 to 84 years old, received a message claiming that there had been an error with an Amazon order and they were owed $20,000.
The 1011Now report says that they were told there was no interest on payments made immediately, so were encouraged to pay via Bitcoin, Western Union and Apple Gift Cards over several months.
Scammers intensified the scam by pretending to be FBI agents, claiming that there was an “infiltrator” in their bank. They instructed the couple to not contact their financial institution and gained remote access to the computer of the couple to exploit further their account.
In December 2025, the authorities learned of this scheme after it had resulted to repeated transfers of up to a quarter million dollars.
Due to the nature and complexity of remote transfer methods such as cryptography, it is extremely difficult for the sheriff’s department to recover lost funds once they have been transferred, especially when a significant amount of time has passed since the initial fraud was reported.
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