A Frisco woman says she was tricked into depositing more than $32,000 into a bitcoin ATM machine after scammers convinced her she was protecting her money from hackers.

Susan Mayfield, 76, said that on July 23, she received an alert on her laptop appearing to come from Microsoft, warning her that her computer had been hacked and instructing her to call a phone number on the screen.

"The caller told me there were five foreign IP addresses on my computer," Mayfield said. "He said he could see all sorts of things the hackers had done, including stealing $32,800 from my bank account."

Mayfield was directed to call her bank at a number the scammer provided. A woman on the line told her to cash the amount, $15,000 at one bank and $17,800 at another, and then deposit it into a bitcoin A

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