MoCo residents have lost over $5 million to gold bar scams in the past year

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MoCo residents have lost over $5 million to gold bar scams in the past year

One day in late February, a woman living in Silver Spring’s Leisure World community received a call from someone claiming to be from the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of the Inspector General. She was told that her identity had been stolen, and she should transfer her money into gold bars so that they could be turned over to FBI agents who would put them into the U.S. Department of Treasury. She complied and handed off the gold bars to a cou…