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A police department intervened in a cryptocurrency scam, helping a woman recover $23,000 and highlighting the lengths scammers will go to swindle unsuspecting victims. The incident, captured in body cam footage shared in a public service announcement by Ohio’s Department of Job and Family Services, involved a woman who was close to losing at least $23,000.The footage shows a police sergeant in White Settlement, Texas, arriving at a gas station where the woman was putting cash into a Bitcoin machine. The sergeant intervened after the woman, who was on the phone with someone she thought worked for Chase Bank, expressed that she was in danger. The officer confronted the scammer on the other end of the line, preventing further communication and ensuring the woman retrieved her money from the machine.Heidi Turner-Stone, section chief of Adult Protective Services at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, said, “Here’s our…

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