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re: My father fell for a telephone scam
Posted on 5/24/26 at 6:39 pm to The Boat
Posted on 5/24/26 at 6:39 pm to The Boat
quote:
Are we missing some steps here?
Maybe just a few.
My aunt and grandmother almost fell for one years ago. They called my aunt and said I was in jail for a DWI and needed $500 to bond myself out. And she got off the phone and immediately went to the bank and withdrew the money. She was almost to the next step in the process when she called one of her sons and told him and he called me, who was sitting in my office just fine.
I told her a) I don’t even drink, b) I appreciated her dropping everything to get me out of jail, and c) next time to simply pick up the phone and call or text me. She was embarrassed and felt bad but the older people get the easier it is to fool them with just the slightest information (i.e. the name of one of her nephews).
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Posted on 5/24/26 at 6:47 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
Posted on 5/24/26 at 6:55 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
My mom who is only 72, still in very good cognitive shape, and typically adept at avoiding scams nearly fell for one where someone pretending to be an Amazon employee said there were unauthorized charges on her account. She just Googled Amazon customer support phone number and found a fake one to call, which was insanely stupid. Some federal fraud official who really exists was supposed to have a call with her the next day, obviously it wasn’t really him.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 6:55 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
quote:Sorry but those two statements do not compute.
Before he could respond, they were able to hack into his Walgreens account
Posted on 5/24/26 at 7:02 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
801 and 808 area codes are the highest in scams as people think it is an 800 number.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 7:30 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
This world has been, and always will be, filled with colossal pieces of shite who scam others with no remorse
Posted on 5/24/26 at 7:34 pm to T1gerNate
quote:pussy is still undefeated
Fell in love with a fraudster and gave them literally everything he had. Everything he worked his whole life for. Hundreds of thousands
Posted on 5/24/26 at 7:38 pm to CocomoLSU
My grandpaw almost lost a grand because some scammers told him they were cartel and had kidnapped my grandmaw and we’re gonna kill her
Posted on 5/24/26 at 7:39 pm to SouthlakeTiger
Scams targeting elderly are a never ending activity. We see about 2-3 a month, and are very carful about never doing a purchase we did not initiate, or react to the threat of a police summons or call that a child is hurt. The current most difficult to head off is doing a simple purchase over the internet based on the "trial offer". Once they have your credit card access it can take 5-6 months to stop them sending refills for there misrepresented crap product. You waste your time and additional billing by trying to shut down the reorders. Just work with your card issuer to shut it down. Others will try selling the new, magical drugs for 300 bucks that cost 6 dollars through your pharmacy/insurance.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 7:41 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
quote:
My father fell for a telephone scam
A whole lot more folks fall for scams than they let on. For the amount of attempts, I believe some folks have to be making some serious money.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:05 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
He had to affirmatively give up info that allowed these fricktard scammers to steal his money. Please talk to him to find out how this happened so it doesn't again.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:10 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
The Paypal and apple pay scam run by sorry arse Indians right now is where they get the victim to download a remote connection app on their phone. Then they gain access to your phone and all its information.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:14 pm to CocomoLSU
This is why I dont answer the phone, I dont talk to people and I told my kids that if they got arrested they could spend the night in lockup.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:45 pm to TheWalrus
quote:
My mom who is only 72, still in very good cognitive shape, and typically adept at avoiding scams nearly fell for one
Same situation but we stopped her at the bank. They made her think she had warrants out and she needed to pay $5k. The scary thing was they wanted to meet her in person for the money
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
$500 isn’t that much money
Its relative. What might be not as much to you, may be a lot to someone else.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:51 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
Hey it has been 3.5 hours… now fill us in on some details, because your post is nonsense as-is.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:53 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
This is why I never answer a call unless it is in my contacts... I get about 6 robo calls a week... But a few years ago it was 6 easily a day.. I am sorry this happened to your dad.. He must be sick about it..
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:56 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
ActBlue got my mom for a few thousand before we caught on. She was 85 at the time. They have those granny apps now to where only there children can call them
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:57 pm to deltaland
Sounds like my dad. He was scammed over $250K before we figured out what was happening.
Thank goodness we caught it before he sold his house.
Thank goodness we caught it before he sold his house.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 8:58 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
We would get 15 or more scam calls a day. Finally convinced my mom to drop her land line and use cell phones only. She finally agreed but only wanted a flip phone. She is pushing 90.
There are still a lot of times I have to turn notifications off for her but no scam calls. But she will download every solitaire game there is.
There are still a lot of times I have to turn notifications off for her but no scam calls. But she will download every solitaire game there is.
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