Phone scam targeting parents costs mum $4500
Jan Lenton thought she was lending her son some much-needed emergency cash - but $4500 later she realised she'd been the victim of a cruel scam.
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Wake Forest, North Carolina
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Wake Forest is a town in Franklin and Wake counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina; located almost entirely in Wake County, it lies just north of the state capital, Raleigh. The population was 30,117 at the 2010 census, up from 12,588 at the 2000 census. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city's population to be 45,629 as of July 1, 2019. In 2007, the town was listed by Forbes magazine as the 20th fastest growing suburb in America, with a 73.2... Show more percent increase in population between 2000 and 2006. Wake Forest was the original home of Wake Forest University for 122 years before it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956. The US Office of Management and Budget also includes Wake Forest as a part of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 1,998,808 as of U.S. Census 2012 Population Estimates. Effective June 6, 2003 the Office of Management and Budget...
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