Elderly Seal Beach Woman Says She Was Hypnotized by Scammer for Money

Elderly Seal Beach Woman Says She Was Hypnotized by Scammer for Money
Gift cards are shown for sale inside a Lowe's retail store in Carlsbad, California, on May 24, 2017. Mike Blake/Reuters
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A 96-year-old Seal Beach, California, woman was scammed out of thousands of dollars—she believes by hypnosis—in one of the more recent online scams targeting the elderly.

Seal Beach police, last week, warned of a “significant uptick in financial scams and fraud crimes, primarily targeted at our senior citizen population,” and the elderly woman was one of the latest victims, according to a press release from officials.