Warrants: Lottery Scammers Dupe Woman, 76
Two Powder Springs men face charges of theft by deception and exploitation of an elderly person.
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Two men, through a series of phone conversations and mailings, convinced a 76-year-old woman to cough up more than $40,000 in so-called tax payments if she wanted to secure the money from a lottery win, according to Cobb County warrants.
In actuality, the woman was no lottery winner, records show. And the $40,750 that she sent the men went into the Chase bank account of an alleged scammer, Damien Jervon Reed of Powder Springs.
Authorities allege in documents that Reed made two deposits last summer at a Chase location near Town Center at Cobb, one for $7,000 on June 27 and another for $33,750 on July 11.
Reed and Jerome Abemelu Afebuame, also of Powder Springs, were arrested Feb. 27. Authorities accuse the men of working in concert to dupe the woman. They face various charges, including two counts of theft by deception and exploitation of an elderly person.
While Reed has been released, Afebuame remains in custody in lieu of $25,000 bond. He faces an additional theft by deception charge in connection with an unrelated case.
According to a warrant, a man thought he was paying rent on a New York property when he wired $10,380 from his PNC Bank account to the Fifth Third Bank account of Jey & Zion LLC on Feb. 12.
Afebuame, records show, is the sole proprietor of Jey & Zion LLC.
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Melinda Paris
4:00 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Lock em' up and THROW AWAY THE KEY!! Disgusting piece of rubbish is what these two are to do that to an elderly person, then again I hate feeding/clothing these two, just put them in a electric chair and put the switch! No More worries!!
Katie Estes
10:54 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The statements made in this article are false, Damien is my husband, and he is a victim of Jerome too, he was scammed and lied to. He was not arrested for this crime as it states, the mug shot they have is for a traffic violation. Yes, there is an investigation going on but we are praying the truth will come out and justice will be served. But to those who are deserving, and Damien is not one of them, he is a victim in this too. So please pass this on instead of the lie of an article above.
Gerald Moore
6:55 am on Saturday, March 30, 2013
Know it that Jerome is a Business Man who received payments from third Parties for car purchases that turned out to be from con-victims. Jerome himself is a victim. From background checks it is obvious that Jerome has no criminal arrests or even a Record but Damien Has a series of Prior criminal Records so what is going on????