Friday, March 29, 2024

2 Jamaican Women Scam 2 Elderly Woman for Nearly $600K to Stunt on Instagram

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Pictured is Tavoy Malcolm wearing pricey Louboutin heels that, prosecutors say, were purchased with an elderly woman’s credit card.

It looks like justice is going to be served to two heartless heffas who bilked two senior citizens out of nearly $600,000. Authorities say it was all so they could flex their lavish lifestyles and addiction to fancy shoes for the world to see on social media, reports the NY Daily News.

Crocodile leather sneakers, blue suede kicks and Christian Louboutin shoes were just some of the footwear allegedly purchased in the crime, according to court papers.

Tavoy Malcolm even used her Instagram account to model a pair of mint green Pigalle pumps by Louboutin that were bought with a dying woman’s credit card, officials said. Malcolm also cruised around in a Mercedes-Benz sedan, according to prosecutors.

The prosecutors accused Malcolm and Lorindo Powell of bilking a 77-year-old woman who ended up losing her house. They also scammed a 91-year-old woman during the last four months of her life.

The NYDN says Malcolm, 26, was arrested Friday and Powell, 29, on Saturday. They were remanded after arraignments in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Both suspects are Jamaican nationals and allegedly carried out multiple elder-fraud scams around New York for years. Malcolm and Powell showed a “total lack of conscience,” authorities said. They are facing up to 20 years behind bars if convicted of wire and bank fraud.

The scams usually involved a bogus claim that a senior citizen won money in a lottery or sweepstakes — but the lucky winners just needed to disclose some financial information or pay some taxes so they could get their winnings.

The $572,000 fraud against the first victim, the 77-year-old woman, started in 2006 when an unknown person contacted her about a windfall coming her way.

The NYDN story goes on to say that Powell soon took over for the other person and kept telling the woman to keep up on her payments. But the bogus tax payments put the woman behind on her mortgage, and she defaulted on her home loan as a result. Powell persuaded the woman to pass along the mortgage payments to him, too — not to the mortgage lender. The elderly woman now lives in a rented room, authorities said.

Wow. Damn shame. Read the rest of the story at NY Daily News.

 

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