A scammer spent days gaining the trust of an 89-year-old woman, ultimately stealing thousands, the Hingham Police Department said.

Last week, the 89-year-old woman got an email from someone claiming to be her bank. The email said there was unusual activity on her bank account and to call a phone number for the fraud department.

Once she called, they told her her account had been compromised and to withdraw her money at two nearby banks in Quincy and Scituate. The goal was to withdraw $34,000.

She was also asked to stay on the phone while she was at the bank and to "leave her phone in her pocket so they could listen while she spoke with the tellers," the police department stated.

"They told her to not take ‘no’ for an answer if the tellers decline to give her the cash,“ the police dep

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