Scammers Bilk Elderly Women Out of Thousands in Queens, Police Say

QUEENS — Thieves have been targeting elderly women — including one who was 86 years old — in Queens to scam them out of tens of thousands of dollars by promising them winning lottery tickets and large cash sums, police said.

At least two such cases recently took place within the 102nd Precinct, which covers Kew Gardens, Woodhaven and Richmond Hill, police officials said.

And police sources said that several similar incidents targeting elderly women recently took place in Forest Hills as well. Details were not immediately available about the additional incidents or if they were related to the ones in the 102nd Precinct.

In the latest incident, which occurred in Kew Gardens on April 9, a couple approached an 86-year-old woman on Lefferts Boulevard, near Cuthbert Road, according to Deputy Inspector Henry Sautner, the precinct's commanding officer.

The couple told the women that they found $150,000 and they were willing to give her $50,000, but they would first need a $10,000 finder’s fee.

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Scammers Bilk Elderly Women Out of Thousands in Queens, Police Say