A woman was duped into depositing more than $12,000 into a bitcoin ATM machine after she got a call from someone posing as a Florida deputy, federal prosecutors said.
The Sarasota resident was scammed by a man incarcerated inside a Georgia prison and his female “associate” outside of prison in a scheme known as a “jury duty scam,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
Anthony Sanders, a 28-year-old “documented gang member,” was serving a seven-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter, unlawful acts of violence in a penal institution and violating Georgia’s “street gang terrorism act” when he’s accused of defrauding the woman, prosecutors wrote in court filings…