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One perpetrator admitted she was “disgusted with herself, ashamed and horrible” for what she did.

How else could you feel when you steal from an elderly blind woman, or try to con an 93-year-old Alzheimer’s patient?

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Fraudsters Kevin Sampson and his girlfriend Aimee Cipolla targeted and preyed upon elderly victims — nine of the 10 were females, including a legally blind, recent widowed and a age-related-memory-challenged 90-year-old man who was terrorized and bilked for $18,649 over 11 days last summer.

Under the guise of performing emergency roof repairs, Sampson, 42, and Cipolla, 35, wormed their way into the victims’ home.

They pretended to “refund” overpayments by exploiting a handheld device that recorded the victims’ PIN from their bank cards.

And then after the predators snatched the vulnerable victims’ personal info, they ripped off their bank accounts and credit cards for thousands of dollars, $500 almost daily purchases of booze, food and other items. The con artists performed no work on the victims’ roofs and collected roughly $21,500 in ill-gotten loot.