ST. ANN, JAMAICA: 58-year-old woman who tried to assist old man ends up losing $300,000... Elderly con man kept using ‘God’ on his evil journey... “Him is about 87 or 88 years old. Mi can’t believe an old man like that a do dem things deh,” the woman lamented as she related her ordeal to the Jamaica Observer.

BY RENAE DIXON Sunday Observer staff reporter dixonr@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, January 25, 2015  

The kindness of a 58-y ear-old woman meant nothing to a St Ann con artist last week, as she was fleeced of $300,000 in a bid to assist the con man, a senior citizen whom nobody expected to be involved in the business of ripping people off.

The woman, who did not want her identity revealed, works as a caregiver for an elderly woman.

The events unfolded in a bizarre fashion. It was last Tuesday that the victim decided to pay her bills in the parish capital of St Ann’s Bay when she saw the elderly man who appeared to be in distress.

“Him is about 87 or 88 years old. Mi can’t believe an old man like that a do dem things deh,” the woman lamented as she related her ordeal to the Jamaica Observer.

She said that as she continued her trek, she saw the elderly man crying along the road.

“Him say: ‘Hey Miss, just a word wid you’,” she stated.

The bank book and receipt that
show the withdrawal made on
 Tuesday. (PHOTO: RENAE DIXON)

According to the woman, the elderly man was asking for directions to a place.

“Him a ask mi about some real estate,” she said.

When she told the man that she did not know the place, he proceeded to tell her that he had been robbed by a woman who promised to help him buy a piece of land.

“Him seh dem rob him all the time and him have the whole heap a money,” she continued. more