New York grandmother vanishes in Las Vegas as family gets mysterious texts from her phone asking for Bitcoin

Days after a New York grandmother vanished without a trace while visiting Las Vegas , her family says they began receiving chilling text messages from her phone asking for Bitcoin.

Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother of five, was reported missing Aug.

10, two days after she was last seen leaving a friend's apartment near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue, according to her family and a missing person report obtained by KLAS-TV .

Goods was staying with her longtime friend Roger John, who told the station she left his apartment around 12:45 p.m.

Aug.

8 to take a bus to a nearby CVS to pick up iron pills.

She never came back. 'WONDERFUL' CA NURSE AND MOTHER VANISHES AFTER GOING TO CASINO, CAR FOUND ABANDONED AT MOUNTAIN PARK: FAMILY "Last I saw her, she was going down the stairs.

And I said, ‘OK, see you later,’ And that’s the last time I saw her," John told the station.

John said he initially wasn't alarmed because Goods sometimes spent hours out shopping .

When she didn't return, he began calling and texting her without success and later contacted her family.

"This is not like her to just go missing," Goods' niece, Alana Calloway, told the outlet.

"She has a family that loves her, cares about her.

We want her home and want her home safe and alive." SCAMMERS EXPLOIT NANCY GUTHRIE CASE WITH QR CODE MONEY REQUESTS, PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF WARNS On Aug.

12, Goods' family says messages started coming from her phone.