re: Ascension resident scammed out of $275,000, Houston man arrested.

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How does someone dumb enough to fall for these scams accrue $275,000? I just don't get it.

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The elderly in the South grew up with an ethos of trust, kindness, and hospitality. They could never envision someone being so corrupt to scam them so they treat it as legit.

Moreover, they don't always confer with their children or others thinking they 'don't want to bother them again.'

In most respects, they have been a blessing to family and nation and now they are vulnerable. So much has changed so much for them.

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Average person doesn’t have $275k liquid

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The elderly who came through the depression or WWII, or were raised by parents that came through those slim times, were vv frugal.

Sentence him to slave labor for the old guy at $1/hour till he pays it off.

Doesn't appear to be the $hi7head that tried scam me for a "failure to appear" warrant last year.

My scammers sounded like a pair of middle aged black guys.

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One of these people called us the other day and said there was a warrant for missed jury duty.

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That's EXACTLY the same one I got.

There was a couple of fines attached to the warrant and if I went to the Sheriff's office, they would have no choice but to arrest me, so if I paid the fine first that would prevent the arrest.

The way I was to pay it was go to a kiosk, deposit the money and give them the deposit code.

I was instructed not to tell anyone nor to hang up the phone.

My wife got a deputy to come and he got in on the call. No way that he could have caught them.

let’s import 500,000 of these types.

~ Greg Abbott

Someone in West Feliciana fell for the same scam recently. Got them for $300K. Chinese guy from Cali.

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Worried about this with my dad. He's got Alzheimer's and it's progressing really quickly. My mom says he gets calls and texts from people claiming they're Elon Musk and people like that and that poor baw believes them just because of where he's at now in life.

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Take the phone. We had to do that with my dad.

People have way more money than sense

I once saw a doc which showed a training class for phone marketers

They were taught to target old people, especially widow(er)s, Their children are grown and gone, and they are lonely. The students are taught to begin not w/a sales pitch but w/"Hello, how are you today?" - good manners requiring a response to a question.

Psychlogically, the longer people stay on the phone the less likely they are to hang up, as they feel "invested" in the call. So if you keep lonely old people on the phone by showing interest in them, you soften them up for the pitch.