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Moving Scams Cost 3 Metro Families More Than $100K, Possessions
Scammers posing as professional movers, loaded up the families' personal belongings, took partial payment, then disappeared, police said.

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Scammers posing as professional movers, loaded up the families' personal belongings, took partial payment, then disappeared, police said.

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