An Oceanside senior Marine veteran was scammed out nearly $35,000 dollars through an elaborate phone call.

“He was my first hero, really, he doesn’t like that term actually but as a man, you know, he set a good example of what it means to be an empathetic and caring person,” Amanda Eberhardt said.

For Amanda Eberhardt, seeing the man she admires most become a victim of a scheme has been devastating.

“I came back from Vietnam with PTSD, and this has just brought it back on all over again,” Tom Eberhardt said.

It happened on Oct. 27, the day of her father’s 76th birthday.

Tom Eberhardt said he received a call from a woman claiming to be an Apple representative telling him his account had been compromised in connection to racketeering and money laundering activities.

“I said well, I don

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