NYPD Hunts Gold-Bar Scam Suspect Who Took $9 Million in Gold From a 67-Year-Old Upper West Side Man
The New York City Police Department released surveillance images on November 11 seeking a suspect in a gold-bar scam that took $9 million in gold bars from a 67-year-old man on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Police are investigating the case as grand larceny and are asking the public to help identify the man.
Investigators said the scheme began on March 26, 2025, when a security alert popped up on the victim's computer and a man claiming to work for a security company told him his financial assets had been compromised and offered to protect his money. The victim was persuaded to carry out multiple transactions, withdrawing cash and buying gold bars, then handing the bars over, supposedly to secure his assets and protect his bank accounts.
On April 16, 2025, the victim met the supposed security expert near West 81st Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side and handed over the gold bars; he never saw the man again. Detectives later recovered street surveillance video of the suspect. Anyone with information can call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477); all calls are confidential.
New York's attorney general has previously warned seniors about the same pattern of gold-bar scams, which begin with a computer pop-up alert and end with victims converting savings into gold bars collected by couriers; the office put statewide losses at more than $100 million over two years.
Related: Gold-Bar Scams Targeting Seniors: 10 Indicted Federally, Seven of Them From California
(Source: New York City Police Department)
Source: New York City Police Department
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