The ex New York beauty queen who lost $2,000 to a pair of con-kids running a Zelle scam has helped cops identify the suspects — and brushed off the ridicule she’s faced since sharing the story. Briana Siaca, 30, stopped by the NYPD’s 13th Precinct on Monday — looking Miss-New-York-sharp in blue jeans with a white sweater and black blazer — to confirm the identity of two teens caught on subway footage — who turned out to already have two open warrants out for their arrest. “There’s apparently there’s a bunch of young teenagers from New Jersey that take the PATH or the buses from New Jersey and hang out at these parks and target people,” Siaca told The Post, explaining the cops who first responded after she was scammed knew right-off about the scheme.
“They were like, ‘We’ve been looking for these kids, we’re gonna find these f**kers.'” #madisonsquarepark #nycscam #nycscammer #nypd #basketballteamscam #nycrobbery Sciaca, who was crowned Miss New York in 2021 and has since become a high-end real estate agent for Corcoran, took to social media over the weekend to share how two kids approached her in Madison Square Park on Friday claiming to be players on a Bronx youth basketball team trying to raise money for uniforms. Not having any cash on her, the boys offered to help her pay digitally by inputting their team’s information into her Zelle account themselves — but while they had her phone in their hands they instead sent themselves $2,000 and to.