Scam Courier's Fate Hangs in Balance

0:00It's April 10th, I'm Cory with the story. This is Calgary News today, driven by AI. A 48-year-old woman named Alana Love Duncan is up for sentencing in Calgary after pleading guilty to seven fraud counts. She acted as a courier in scams that ripped off seniors for $70,000 back in July and August of last year. The con worked like this, callers pretending to be grandkids, nephews, or cops in a jam told victims their family needed bail money fast. Years age 67 to 96 rushed to banks or dug up valuables to hand over. These folks lost serious cash, and 194-year-old even gave up her coin collection worth $22,212. The heartbreak kids hard when you think about trusting family calls, turning into theft. Prosecutors and her lawyer teamed up for a joint deal, two years less a day, on conditional sentence, house arrest the first 12 months, curfew, the. Next, plus $18,000 back in monthly payments over five years, they call her role miner,

1:04like a mule in a drug run. The judge questioned why not full payback, maybe lifelong, and isn't sold on skipping jail. She's mulling it over the weekend before ruling, so this scam couriers fate hangs in the balance.