Phone scam targeting parents costs mum $4500
Jan Lenton thought she was lending her son some much-needed emergency cash - but $4500 later she realised she'd been the victim of a cruel scam.
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East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, 27 miles south of London, 21 miles northeast of Brighton, and 38 miles northeast of the county town of Chichester. The civil parish has an area of 2,443.45 hectares. The population at the 2011 Census was 26,383.Nearby towns include Crawley and Horley to the west, Tunbridge Wells to the east and Redhill and Reigate to the northwest. The town is contiguous... Show more with the village of Felbridge to the northwest. Until 1974 East Grinstead was in East Sussex, before joining together with Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill as the Mid-Sussex district of West Sussex. The town has many historic buildings and is on the Greenwich Meridian. It is in the Weald and Ashdown Forest lies to the south-east.
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