FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio —

The Ohio Attorney General's Office says that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation helped a Butler County woman recover tens of thousands of dollars that she lost in a cryptocurrency scam.

The Ohio Attorney General's Office says that the bureau helped the 67-year-old Fairfield Township woman, who was not identified by authorities, recover approximately $36,000 in stolen money that she lost last year. Advertisement

In total, the woman lost $88,000 in the scam. The additional $52,000 still remains unaccounted for.

Authorities say that the scam started on Dec. 4, 2024, when a prompt on the computer that the woman was using suggested that her device was hacked, and that she call a phone number attached to the prompt for further support in resolving the issue

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