GALVESTON, TX (KTRK) — Quick-thinking postal employees are being credited with stopping a scam and saving an elderly Galveston man thousands of dollars.

We’ve all heard of the lottery scam, but its latest victim was saved from sending his last dime to the suspected con artist by three postal workers in Galveston. The most remarkable part is something that rarely happens: the alleged scammer got caught.

Whenever an elderly customer wants to send thousands of dollars to a stranger with a post office money order, the clerks get suspicious.

That was the case for Post Office worker Mike Hogan back in November.

“I know that he was spending a lot of money and it just didn’t feel right to me,” said Hogan. Read more