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FOX 11 Investigates: California man tricked out of $200K in clever scam

Published February 15, 2017
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(FOX 11) - A California man says he lost $200,000 of his family's savings in an alleged scam that's so bizarre, it's hard to imagine that anyone could fall for it.

But he did.

Phil Shuman reports on a clever scam that has ripped people off all over the world.

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