PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A California man was arrested after allegedly scamming an 81-year-old Oregon woman out of $284,000, authorities announced Wednesday.

The case goes back to late September, when a Lincoln County woman reported the financial fraud, telling the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office that a scammer posed as an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, the suspected scammer convinced the woman to convert her savings into gold and to “surrender it for safekeeping.”

FBI agents traced the scam to an individual in India who directly communicates with victims and uses couriers to collect the gold.

Deputies later discovered that law enforcement recently apprehended two of the couriers in the Kansas City area, who were associated with the ca

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