A Chinese national in the country illegally has been arrested in Alabama over a scheme aimed at defrauding a vulnerable elderly American of her life savings, a crime that has been on the increase in the U.S.
Xiahezhati Xiaokelaiti, 23, who has illegally overstayed a student visa, was arrested Friday and accused of defrauding an elderly woman out of around $400,000 over a three-week period, WEAR-TV reported.
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Investigators say the illegal alien conned the woman into thinking he was a federal marshal working with the U.S. Treasury Department and convinced her to turn her cash into gold and give it to him. The woman, investigators say, thought she was following orders from federal law enforcement.
Eventually she became suspicious and involved police whereupon an investigation was begun.
Federal agents have been reporting a wide network of similar scammers targeting elderly Americans, many of them run by Indian and Chinese nationals, most here illegally. Perpetrators often call these scams “hog butchering,” because the elderly and easily fooled Americans often have a fat bank account.
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