BOSTON —

Lou Chorney sensed something was not quite right in the urgency in an older woman's voice. She was insisting on buying almost half a million dollars in gold bars.

Chorney, a gold dealer in Boston for decades, issued his standard recommendation to buy coins instead of bars. Latest Forecast

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But the woman would not hear it and also would not entertain his suggestion that she put the gold in a safe deposit box.

"She waffled a little bit that it would be in a safe place," he said.

The Boston office of the FBI had recently warned Chorney and other gold dealers in the area about a relatively new version of a scam targeting older adults, in which the scammer convinces the victim they must pay large sums of money, or, in this case

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