Missing Elderly Woman Found After Husband Accidentally Transfers $1000 To Indian Tech Support Scam

SPRINGFIELD, MO — Search parties and law enforcement successfully located missing elderly woman Carol Harvey after a request for $869.95 from a tech support scam in India alerted caregivers to her plight.

"It's a scam! I’m telling you, a scam! Honey, your computer’s not riddled with viruses! No, sir, don’t transfer them any more money, or we might lose the north end of the house! A scam! Birosh, come help!" These frantic mutterings were overheard during the 911 call made from the Harvey home last Thursday. This sort of panic often leads to calls for help when Mr. Harvey gets himself tangled in scam shenanigans more often than a cat in a yarn factory.

Authorities quickly began searching the area near the intersection of Oak St. and Maple St., where Mr. Harvey had been kindly informed by a supposed tech support agent named Birosh that they were keeping the north half of his house until he opened an email containing a video of them sitting around eating pies in his living room.

“My wife called the nice tech support fella I’ve been on the phone with for six days due to some 'viruses' to say I couldn’t access my bank account. They are 'transferring' 0.2553384 of a Bitcoin into my Binance account so I could withdraw it to grant him access to my qozaa thingy like he asked me to weeks ago,” explained Mr. Harvey to a bemused deputy sheriff who wasn’t quite prepared for the convoluted saga of tech support trickery on a Toshiba CD player.

Searchers finally found Mrs. Harvey disoriented but unharmed, wandering down the Pea Ridge Nature Trail. "I was just walking along, over that way," she said, pointing in the opposite direction from where the police initially reported she had gone missing. "And the MRI tech said I had some bad clicks in my cranial matrix and if I didn’t transfer $10,000 to ‘Sunny Beachy Selphie Honey’ on my Zazzle card, my brain would call the doctor. So, I just clicked the button, and then my head felt funny, and all of a sudden, I was here. Those tech support people sure know what they're doing!"

At publishing time, Mr. Harvey was contacted by someone claiming to be from the Springfield Police Department, which was clearly another scam since, as everyone knows, the cops don’t call anyone.