She lost more than $720,000 and sank so low that the 80-year-old two-time widow and mother of four considered taking her own life. In the same year, Artemis Yaffe was targeted by a scammer posing as an IRS agent, losing her $1.8-million nest egg and — eventually — her home. “My life cannot be ruined by this scammer,” a weeping Lin told me in the dining room of her Alhambra home. Lin, who moved from Taiwan to the U.S. in the '60s, could identify, having lost two husbands to cancer. "I was in so much shock, I couldn't think clearly," Yaffe told me.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 02, 2024 13:17 UTC