NY woman missing in Vegas with family getting alarming texts from her phone asking for bitcoin

A Brooklyn woman’s family is growing more concerned by the day after she vanished while visiting a friend in Las Vegas — and suspect someone else is using her phone to ask the family for money.Alisa Goods, 63, was reported missing earlier this month after leaving the friend’s apartment Aug.8 to go to a CVS pharmacy just off the Las Vegas Strip.“This is not like her to just go missing,” her niece, Alana Calloway, told Fox 8.

“She has a family that loves her, cares about her.We want her home and want her home safe and alive.”The concerned family, who hail from New York and New Jersey, said she was staying with her friend, Roger John, whom she usually stays with when she visits Sin City.John told the outlet that this was Goods’ second visit this year, and said he’s known her for nine years.“It’s just sad because she’s the nicest person you would meet,” John said of his missing friend.He said the last time he saw her was when she left his apartment to catch a bus around 12:45 p.m., and that he left a short time later and returned after two or three hours to find she still wasn’t back.“And I was like, ‘She should have been home already.’ I didn’t think much of it, because sometimes she’d go out and she’d shop, she stays out.

And I kept texting and calling and texting and calling,” John said.He and Goods’ family both said her cell phone had been disconnected and wasn’t working — until Aug.12, two days after she was reported missing, when it started firing off text messages to the family.“I said, ‘Hey, could you call me back? Something happened to mommy.

It’s an emergency.’ And I kind of went on and on trying to get the person to actually call me.But they kept putting it off and saying, ‘Now my card’s not working,’” Calloway told the outlet.She said the person on the other end claimed to be at a gas station having issues with their credit card, which Calloway immediately found suspicious as Goods did not h...