Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old woman from Brooklyn, New York, disappeared on August 8 while visiting a friend in Las Vegas. According to her family, they have received multiple strange text messages and phone calls demanding payment in bitcoin from someone posing as Goods. The family has turned over the evidence to Las Vegas police, who believe the scams may be cases of "spoofing" where scammers falsify caller ID information to disguise their identities. Goods is currently classified as a missing adult with no indication of her being in danger.
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Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old woman from Brooklyn, New York, has been missing in Las Vegas since August 8 while visiting a friend. Her niece, Alana Calloway, says her aunt left her friend's house to go to a CVS pharmacy and never returned. The family has received strange text messages from Goods' phone, allegedly sent by someone impersonating her, claiming her credit card had stopped working and demanding payment in bitcoin using the Cash App. When Calloway tried to respond, the person said they were at a gas station and couldn't talk. Her son also recorded a suspicious call he received from someone claiming to be his mother, but Goods doesn't drive, making it unlikely she was actually at a gas station. The family believes these messages are part of a scam.
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The family of a 63-year-old woman who disappeared in Las Vegas this month while she was visiting a friend says someone posing as the woman has been calling and texting from her phone, demanding payment in bitcoin.
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Alisa Goods, of Brooklyn, New York, vanished Aug. 8, her family told “NBC Nightly News.”
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family → vanish → News
Alana Calloway, Goods’ niece, said her aunt left her friend’s house to go to a CVS pharmacy and never returned.
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aunt → say → pharmacy
Days later, the family began getting strange text messages from Goods’ phone that they believe were sent by someone impersonating her.
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they → begin → her
The messages claimed her card had stopped working and that she needs money.
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she → claim → money
“Do you know how to send using the bitcoin on Cash App?
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you → know → App
That’s the only way I can get it out,” one message reads, according to a screenshot the family shared with NBC News.
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family → ’ → News
“I’ll send you the Bitcoin wallet.”
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I → send → wallet
When Calloway asked her aunt to call her, the person texting back said they were at a gas station and couldn’t talk.
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they → ask → station
“I just started crying, because I knew it wasn’t her,” Calloway told “NBC Nightly News” — her aunt doesn’t drive.
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aunt → start → News
Goods’ son also got a call the family believes was from someone impersonating his missing mother.
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family → get → mother
He recorded parts of the conversation and shared it with NBC News.
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He → record → News
On the call, he asked the woman to do a video chat with him.
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he → ask → him
“My phone is bad,” she said.
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she → say → ?
Family of woman missing in Las Vegas plead for answers
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Family → miss → answers
When he asked where she was, she said, “Home.”
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she → ask → Home
The call disconnected as he pressed her for an address.
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he → disconnect → address
The family said they have turned everything over to Las Vegas police.
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they → say → police
Police spokesperson Aden Ocampo told NBC News that based on detective work so far, Goods has been classified as a missing adult and there is “nothing to suggest she is in danger.”
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she → tell → danger
Ocampo said investigators believe the calls, texts and bitcoin requests the family has received could be the result of “spoofing” — a tactic in which scammers deliberately falsify information transmitted to someone’s caller ID to disguise their identities, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
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scammers → say → Commission
Goods’ case remains active.
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