"I know it is just material, but for her, it is very important because she has worn it for so many years, and she is thinking how I can forget the memories I have with the chain," said Ramesh Kumar, son of the latest victim in Elk Grove.
Selvaraj was on the front porch with her daughter-in-law, Ariel Lee, when Lee said a silver Hyundai with a man and woman inside pulled up near their driveway.
Selvaraj walked CBS13 through how the woman gave her a hug and then convinced her to come back to the car with her. That is when Lee said the woman placed a fake gold chain in the palm of her mother-in-law's hand and swooped the one around her neck.
"Next time, you cannot help anybody anymore," she said.
"Just because they are coming in to give you a hug or ask you to see something, if you don't know them, unfortunately, we're at that point now, you don't engage," said Sergeant Jason Jimenez with the Elk Grove Police Department.
"There is some type of ring where they are definitely being trained how to do these," Jimenez said.
CBS13 also spoke with a woman in Rancho Cordova who said the same thing happened to her mom while on an evening walk two weeks ago.
"She is still in the shock. She can't come out from the shock," Kumar said. "She keeps saying that 'Hey, you told me that America is safe. See now what happened on your doorstep? We lost the things right in front of your doorstep."
"The reality is these folks aren't doing the robberies here in Elk Grove and staying in Elk Grove, they are moving from place to place," Jimenez said.
He is reminding people to speak with loved ones who may be vulnerable to this kind of crime, and if it happens to you, he recommends pulling out your cell phone to start recording to get any images of what the suspects may look like to help in the investigation.
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