Fake federal agent arrested for trying to scam Maryland senior into handing over lifes savings in gold bars: police NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

A man posing as a federal agent was arrested after trying to con a Montgomery County senior citizen into converting his retirement savings into gold bars, police said.

Just as that senior was about to hand over roughly $230,000 in life’s savings, a friend stepped in and convinced him to call police instead.

The suspect identified himself to police as Ravinkle Mathon and said he was a German citizen when police pulled over his Toyota Prius on Briggs Cheney Road.

That stop happened just a short distance from the Silver Spring home where Mathon picked up a box, according to court documents.

Mathon believed the box was filled with gold bars his victim had purchased. But instead, police said, it was filled with tools, placed there to simulate the same weight. The box was handed to Mathon by a police officer posing as the victim’s neighbor.

Mathon was then arrested by Montgomery County police.

His scam began as …