Word: telescam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Downs, the secret finally came out when she gave her 19 children and grandchildren shoe boxes stuffed with nearly identical collections of telescam trash. "We considered taking her checkbook away," says daughter Penelope Clute, a prosecuting attorney in New York State. "Fortunately, we didn't do that. It wasn't her. It could happen to anyone. [The scammers] are criminals, and they have the psychology down pat." Even after her secret was out, Downs could not give up hope of recouping some losses. A few weeks later, she called her children to report, with great relief, that at long last...
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