$85 for ‘Moby Dick’? Library scam falls flat

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A man posing as an employee of the Spartanburg County Headquarters Library nearly scammed a local elderly couple out of $85 over the weekend.

The couple’s oldest daughter, Anna Wing, said her 84-year-old father received a phone call this weekend from a man who said he owed an $85 late fee on a copy of “Moby Dick.”

Wing’s father and 79-year-old mother don’t get out much, she said.

“He hasn’t used his (library) card in 12 years,” Wing said of her father, who she requested not be identified.