Woman admits to scamming Illinois grandmother out of $317K

BENTON, Ill. – A Pompano Beach, Florida, woman appeared in federal court on Monday to be sentenced after she admitted to scamming her grandmother living in Cahokia Heights out of more than $300,000.

Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Missouri said Tanya M. Aboseada, 39, lied to her grandmother on at least 12 different occasions between November 2021 and August 2022 and asked that she wire her money.

Aboseada told the court she needed money to transfer a truck title into her name, to cover money owed to the IRS, to pay attorney fees and fines for a car crash, and to pay the family of an alleged child she killed in a car accident to avoid jail time.

“Seniors are warned to avoid giving money to strangers who may be looking to take advantage of them, but it’s a different kind of deceit when criminals target their own elderly family members,” U.S. Attorney Rachelle Aud Crowe said.

All told, Aboseada scammed her grandmother out of exactly $317,049, prosecutors said.

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Aboseada to three years in federal prison. Aboseada was also ordered to pay back the money and serve three years of supervised release.

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