Victim falls for 'pigeon scam,' gives shady duo cash and jewels
A Brooklyn woman was scammed out of $66,000 in cash and jewels by two women who offered to share their riches with her for an upfront fee, police said Tuesday.
Police said the woman, 53, was approached August 28 at Kings Highway and E. 16th St. by two women who said they would share a bag of money they had in exchange for an advance fee.
The ruse is known as the pigeon drop scam, from the French word “pigeon” meaning someone easily fooled.
The woman agreed to give the duo the $65,000 they asked for. They took her to a bank and her nearby home and accepted $50,000 in jewels and about $16,000 in cash, police said.
Before leaving the suspects gave her a bank bag.
“They told her to open it up the next day,’’ a police source said. “She opened it later that day. It was a bag full of paper.”
The woman contacted police, who Tuesday released video of the suspects.
Both are black, in their 40s or 50s and were wearing dark-colored wigs and sunglasses.
They were last seen operating a dark-colored Audi sedan, police said.
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