Wasn’t quite sure where to put this post, so I’m just sticking it here. Hope that’s okay.
With the holidays coming up, now is the best time to work how phone scammers operate into conversations with your older family members.
My husbands grandparents received a call from someone pretending to be from the police department where we live claiming to have arrested my husband for drug possession. They told his grandpa they were who my husband had listed to call for bail money. To add pressure, they told him that he had tested clean for drugs, but they would not release him until they received the bail money.
This piece of garbage then instructed his grandpa to rush to Walmart and buy $4000 worth of Visa Gift cards to later read the codes to them. The Walmart cashier didn’t bat an eye.
If if it wasn’t for his grandma texting my husband with something along the lines of “I’m sorry this happened to you...$4000 is a lot” we wouldn’t have known to call them. This person had convinced them so throughly all this was true that my husband had a hard time getting them to realize they had been scammed. They thought he was calling them from jail.
There are terrible people out there using the elderly as targets. Please give your family members a heads up.
Submitted December 07, 2017 at 09:40AM by klynlamp7 http://ift.tt/2B071eP
