A senior was offered fake jewelry in exchange for cash. It happened in Staten Island and Queens.
Updated June 25, 2022. Yours truly was also targeted Saturday when a well dressed Middle East man in his 30s with someone sitting in the back stopped next to me while I was walking on the sidewalk on Union Turnpike off Queens Boulevard. I thought he needed directions as he gestured me over. He did not pull over. His first question was whether I was Vietnamese, then showed me a large gold ring. When I pulled out my cell phone, he sped off in a white SUV with a Florida-plate.