grandson in jail
Got the call today from my oldest grandson. Needs bail money sent to Missouri. DWI charge. I have no children so I played along. He kept stringing me to say his name, but I didn't give him one to use on me. Told him he got himself into this mess he can get himself out of it, & besides he never paid back any of the money I loaned him before. He kept saying he'd pay me back in a month. I kept laying it on him till he hung up. Not falling for that crap. My best friend's dad fell for the scam & it cost him $2500.00. The man was tighter than bark on a tree & it about killed him when he found out he was scammed & money gone,
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Good for you almost gramdpa...
We get lots of scam calls here as well. Not that one yet. However, The IRS, Nigerian Prince, and others have graced us. The best were the money orders from banks to buy things we were selling with all kinds of tall tales with euro english spelling errors that clue fraud...
Glad you played it right.0 -
I received one of those calls once. I felt terrible for my grandson being locked up. I started for the bank to get the money and then remembered that my grandson was only 3 years old so I stopped for a beer. 0 -
Good move longspur. I heard a story on these "grandson in jail" scams a month ago. These scum pull in a lot of money, a whole lot, from this stuff.
Your cash winds up in the Bahamas, or Nigeria or somewhere so tuff stuff for the American sucker.0 -
All my kids know not to call me from jail. They are safe there. There I can't get my hands on them. Would spot the scammer immediately. 0 -
its amazing the money they make with new scams but calling thousands of people a day it only taks a hit or two to make a living +
a co-worker got a call once said he won a boat all was needed was 1000 .00 to cover shipping to him
he dragged it out on the phone with them playing along and finely said I have truck just tell me wheres it parked I will take a couple days off work if needed pick it up .. click >>>>>>>>>>>>>0 -
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The one that gets me is tax refund scams, since the IRS doesn't refund in Bitcoin how in the hell can a bank not be culpable in the scheme? If the banks were held accountable I bet that scam would end like el quicko. 0 -
I didn't ask whose phone he was using(jail, lawyer, whatever) Said he rear ended a car while drunk & broke his nose & cut his lip so he was talking funny.
My mom got one of these calls a couple years ago. The caller said this was her grandson, she only has 1 grandson & responded by calling him by name. That's what they want & then play off that name. Of course they don't want you to call their parents. Mom thought about it for a couple of hours, & then called my brother. My brother set her straight. The grandson was at work & not in a Mexican jail.0 -
I had TWO of the scammer calls yesterday, advising me that there had been fraudulent activity on the social security account, and that arrest warrants had been issued for me.
Let me know if any of you want to learn the Hindu or Urdu terms for someone that has unnatural relations with their sister. It makes them hopping screaming mad!
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I would like to hear that. I get calls from them too. 0 -
You'd be amazed the idiotic scams that separate stupid people from their money....the predators focus on two motivators..greed and fear. 0 -
I am so sick of the phoney and scam phone calls.
One I get every 6 months is from an Indian {Pakie} sounding IT 'expert'.
Back story is this: My wife {who died 5 years ago} was required by the hospital she worked for to buy their Dell laptop with software. This was 8 years ago.
She worked under her maiden last name of Joxxxxxxxx.
So at the first phone call after her dealt, I explained she doesn't need to update software,
she's dead.
Then the IT asssshlllole calls every 5 or 6 months asking for Bob Joxxxxxx, NOT my last name.
They just can't seem to understand I don't need to up date medical billing software for a laptop that was used for a target years ago.0 -
My daughter's Mother-in-Law fell for that one. $2000 to Canada. Good thing they didn't ask for more since she is loaded. They will probably try again but at least she knows better now. 0 -
I saw a 10 minute story on the news, a month ago. A guy in Jamaica was trying to scam elderly Americans with money.
So, this 90 year old guy in Virginia, near DC, gets a phone call, he has "won the Jamaica lottery" and all he needs to do is mail $35K to Jamaica to pay for lawyer costs, and he will get his $4 million prize.
So, the old guys said "No thanks."
So then, he starts getting more phone calls demanding more money. Old guys says "No." Then the Jamaican guy starts describing the old guy's house, and his dog! Says he is waiting outside the house in his car and if he isn't paid he will kill the dog. Then, starts cussing out the old guy and threatening to kill him.
Only problem, the old guy is William Webster, former director of the FBI and the CIA. Mr. Webster has connections.
So both agencies got onto this case and started running wiretaps etc. They had great wire taps, had this Jamaica guy calling 88 year old Mrs. Webster on the phone and saying he would "Kill her Mother******* a**" and cut up her dog with a machete" and so forth. Real class act down there in Jamaica.
Evidently, Jamaican criminal scum cannot be extradited to America. But the FBI and CIA waited their chance, evidently they had gone down to Jamaica and planted a gps bug on this extortion scum. The thing was he had never been to DC he had gotten all his info off of Google earth etc. He just looked for neighborhoods in America where rich people lived, googled them up to find old people who he thought would be vulnerable, and ran this scam off of his Iphone.
So, one day, this Jamaica citizen flew in to the airport in New York and he was in handcuffs before he got off the plane. I mean, the CIA and FBI were riled up and they knew exactly where this Jamaica trash was. He got six years in Federal prison.0 -
I posted a guitar for sale on Facebook for my neighbor. $450 . Cash only and gave his phone number and the name of our town.
He has had three different attempts to scam him on the guitar. The same scam with slight variations. All sent him a check and said his shipper would pick it up. As soon as he got the first bank check I told him it was a scam. It came FedX . He was sitting near the door to our apartment complex and watched the FedEx truck come in and deliver a package, and then leave. A few minutes later a white van pulled up and a guy came in with a FedEx envelope. No uniform. My neighbor asked him who he was looking for and the guy said his name. So he handed the envelope over and left.
About an hour later the so called buyer called him and apologized saying he made an error on the check. It was for more than the amount of the guitar, but if he would simply cash it he could keep an extra $100 and then give the guitar and money balance to his shipper when he came to pick it up. ( The bank check was for $2,150 .
My neighbor brought it over to me and asked my opinion. I all but slapped up side the head and reminded him it was a scam. He decided to take it to his bank so I told him to be sure that the bank held it long enough to see it bounce like a rubber ball rather than giving you the money and then later making him responsible for paying them back. It took I think 8 days before the bank called to let him know it was no good. They had put it in his savings account so the money was there for them to get back. The scammer called a couple times trying to get the money and guitar before those 8 days were up.
The next two were identical in that they made it out for extra funds to try to get a free guitar plus cash on top. All called and said they were sending a check. All three attempts had to be local. I finally got it through his head that if someone contacted him and wanted to send a check that it was a scam and to not waste his time. The Ad said Cash Only0 -
It's amazing people still fall for these scammers.
Then again 1/2 the country is idiot demoncraps.0
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