Grandparents Increasingly Targeted By Impostors Who Know ‘Everything’ About Them

(CBS News/CBS Local)– The government is releasing new information about a growing scam targeting older Americans. It tricks people into mailing cash to people pretending to be their grandchildren. Victims reportedly lose an average of $9,000.
“I’m the last person, I thought, would ever fall for a scam like this,” Franc Stratton told CBS News correspondent Anna Werner.
The retired Tennessean spent his career working in intelligence, first for the Air Force and later as a c