‘It’s Just Amazing To Me’: Spaghetti Dinner Raises $18,000 For 95-Year-Old Scam Victim

AUBURN, Maine (CBS Local) — A 95-year-old woman who lost her life savings to a con artist got it all back, and then some, when hundreds of people attended a fundraiser hosted by her state’s former governor.
Barbara Hinckley of Auburn, Maine, was tricked into sending at least $16,000 to a scammer claiming to work at Publishers Clearing House in November. The scammer said she had won $2.5 million and new Mercedes.
Hinckley went public about the scam in hopes that it would deter other p