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connor9988

connor9988

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Grandfather got a phone call today at lunch. Supposedly it was a cousin of mine who went to Puerto Rico or some island place for a friends wedding and got in a fender bender while drinking. The cousin was
nowhere NEAR any islands. Anywho, the impostor claimed that he would need 3000 dollars to get out of jail and that my grandfather needed to call the American Embassy to coordinate things. They apparently
wanted 3000 bucks in the form of wal-mart gift cards or some such thing.

Stay alert everybody. They are getting more and more clever.
 
What is sad is...for the scammers to keep doing this, it must mean that there are still people that 'fall' for this ruse.
 
My brother's MIL almost got taken by one of those about 8 years ago. She answered a call, and the guy said "Grandma??" and she said (name of grandchild), and she got reeled in.

She went to a bank to draw out money (cash for a western union money order), and the teller got curious about the transaction. Thank goodness the teller put a stop to it then and there.
 

My uncle who I consider a smart man has almost fell for scams like this. His savior is he is about blind and calls me to help him with the transactions.

Old folks are on meds are sleep a lot so there brain is not alert sometimes PLUS they will knock you down to answer the phone cuzz they want to talk to someone they are EZ prey. If we live long enoufh we all will be there someday.
 
I think scammers like that should be lined up and shot. About 15 years ago my mom called me and said she had gotten a call from my son that he had been in a wreck and needed financial help at the hospital. Fortunately she was confused enough not to who or how to wire the money. She was more than a little upset and here I was 600 miles from her and couldn't do very much to console her. My brother that lives in the same town as her said she stayed upset for a month over it.
 

Unfortunately, so many of them nowdays are in other countries, but have means to have money sent to some stateside address - or in this case, even to outside the country in Puerto Rico.

Yes, many folks fall for this all the time. If even one person per week takes the bait (out of literally thousands!), that's some dang good income in other countries!!
 
And modern technology makes it easier.

Our local County Sheriff told me recently that he was privy to trying to nab some extortionists. They called first from Washington DC. Fifteen minutes later, they called from Denver. Ten minutes later, they called from Atlanta. And on it went. They were just piggybacking on other phone numbers. And the account where they wanted the extortion money sent was untraceable.

In the same conversation, the Sheriff told about a large, upscale resort hotel in Europe. Someone hacked into the hotel's security system and at 4am locked every door in the building. Hotel guests could neither get into or out of rooms, and the entire infrastructure was shut down. The perpetrators demanded an even million dollars to unlock the doors, and the hotel had no choice but to pay it. Naturally the destination of the funds was not traceable.
 
Goose- "In the same conversation, the Sheriff told about a large, upscale resort hotel in Europe. Someone hacked into the hotel's security system and at 4am locked every door in the building. Hotel guests could neither get into or out of rooms, and the entire infrastructure was shut down. The perpetrators demanded an even million dollars to unlock the doors, and the hotel had no choice but to pay it. Naturally the destination of the funds was not traceable."That is not a true story. See link or look it up yourself.

HTH
Poke here
 
Almost every week there is a story on TV of crooks stealing the life savings of some old lady. By the time the family finds out about it, the money is all gone. Hard to believe that people can be so gullible.

I've had a couple "Grandpa" calls. Told the last one that all my "grands" had to squat to relieve themselves and he sure didn't sound like he needed to do that. He hung up.
 
Friend of mine got a call last week from one of those "credit monitoring" companies. They talked about how bad things were getting and how their "company" could help. As a side note the company we work for had been scammed into letting out all the employees W2 info about a year earlier. I myself have had 3 instances of someone trying to open credit cards in my name going so far as to try to get my mail re-routed to a new address.
Any ways back to my friend, eventually after a great speech they wanted his social number and credit card number to "help" him out.
Hang up is what my friend did. Be on your utmost guard!
 
If I woke up and found I was locked in a hotel room I would be out unless they had a steel door well bolted.
 
I got one last year. Son is in the hospital no ID and doesn't know who he is. I ask the guy how do you know he is my son. Phone went dead. No calls since then.
 
He still uses a landline that doesn't show numbers. Having bad hearing he couldn't tell that who he was talking to wasn't my cousin.
 
I think the most clever one I've seen so far is the "yes" phone scam. They say "Can you hear me" and if you say "Yes" they hang up and use your "Yes" voice recording and somehow use it as your authorization for some product or service.
 

I worry about my mother-in-law falling for phone scams, she's 81 and did agree to an alarm system that the company called about. Luckily it was legitimate and she has a good system, not sure though that she could do better on the monthly monitoring price. She's still pretty sharp but I notice her starting to fail a bit. I've told her to not agree to anything unless she talks to me or her daughter about it first. She did work for a big corporation in a supervisory position so she's not one to take much baloney from people (she had some real winners working for her, even had to take a gun off of one girl that worked for her).
 
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