LEXINGTON, Ky. — Scammers posing as bank employees defrauded an elderly Kentucky couple out of $373,700 and used it to buy cryptocurrency, an FBI special agent said in an affidavit.
The agent, Chelsea Holliday, submitted the sworn statement in support of a request by the government to take $270,781 in cryptocurrency from an account associated with the alleged scam.
The FBI received a complaint in February from a bank that the couple, from Versailles, had fallen victim to a scam and wired $373,700 to a bank in California, Holliday said.
