GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) - A 71-year-old woman from Grand Island was scammed out of around $150,000 after communicating with a scammer posing as Elon Musk via WhatsApp for over a year, Grand Island Police say.

GIPD said the victim believed that she was communicating with Musk, and the scammer sent a photo of him as “verification” that she was actually talking to him.

Police said that they conversed for over a year during which the scammer kept asking for money in terms of Bitcoin. They were able to obtain about $150,000. The scammer kept asking for money, but the lady said that she “ran out,” court documents show.

GIPD said that there is no way for the woman to get her money back since this has been happening for over a year.

“When it comes to Bitcoin and these cryptocurrency machines

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