Georgia Woman Scammed Elderly In Palm Beach County, Sentenced To 12 Years

BY: USDOJ Media Advisory

WEST PALM BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2021 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A federal district judge in West Palm Beach sentenced a Georgia woman to 145 months in prison for leading a scam that tricked over 250 elderly South Floridians into turning over their credit cards, debit cards, and related personal identification numbers.  The defendant and her co-conspirators used the cards and PINs to steal over $1.4 million.

Over approximately four years starting in 2016, Edtronda Simon, 41, of Fayette County, ran an elder fraud scheme that generally operated as follows: Simon would cold-call elderly victims in South Florida, pretend to be from the fraud department of each senior’s bank, and convince the seniors that their accounts had been compromised, which was not true.  Once a senior seemed convinced, Simon would offer to send a “bank representative” to the elderly victim’s home to exchange any…