Con artists getting cleverer with ‘grandparent scam’

Columbus, OH – Scammers are getting trickier by the day when it comes to keeping senior citizens on the phone while trying to steal their life savings.“They are elderly, and the older the better for the scammer,” says Sgt. Dennis Kline who works in the fraud and forgery unit at the Columbus Division of Police.Sgt. Kline says he realized the grandparent scam was making the rounds again in Columbus when a worker at a major retail store’s money order counter told him about s