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re: My father fell for a telephone scam
Posted on 10/15/26 at 6:44 am to Translator
Posted on 10/15/26 at 6:44 am to Translator
UT Austin looks like a call center now. Do not redeem local soon
Posted on 10/15/26 at 7:25 am to LSUtoBOOT
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Time to call the beekeeper.
I really wish some retired spooks and SAC guys would get together and form a company who did nothing but exactly this - find and kill scammers all over the globe. Id be 100% game for the government paying them whatever they want if they deliver results. Raise my taxes $25 for this cause right now and ill pay them with a smile.
Scammers who prey on the elderly are just a few notches below child predators on the pieces of shite who need killing list.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 7:34 am to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
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Before he could respond, they were able to hack into his Walgreens account and spent $500 dollars.
Your dad is lying to you.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 7:57 am to Shorts Guy
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I never thought I’d fall for a telephone scam (and I ultimately didn’t)…but the one where the sheriff’s office calls and the guy sounds like a guy from Baton Rouge would sound…telling me I missed some mysterious court date and the judge issued a warrant for my arrest. Talk about got me worked up. I thought it was totally legit until he started talking about paying fines over the phone. Hung up and called the Sheriff’s office…sure enough, there’s no officer so n so on the force.
“Sheriff” called my wife doing the same thing. She was so upset and handed me the phone.
I asked for name and badge number and said I’d call the main sheriffs office number to call him back to pay. He tried to talk me out of it and got more and more unprofessional until he realized the jig was up.
Told me “frick you!” and hung up
I was happy to piss off a scammer that day.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 8:10 am to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
It happened to a 72 year old lady at my work....twice. It would have been a third time if I didn't walk by her office and hear that foreign Indian voice on speaker. They got her for $400 the first time and $1,500 the second. The kicker is that they pretended to be Hancock Whitney both times. We work right across the street from one. She could have just walked over.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 8:13 am to ultratiger89
I know this is an old thread, but I missed this before:
That absolutely is not a false statement. I am not saying that every single older person falls for this shite...just that the older someone gets the easier they are to convince and fool because as you age into senior life, you often become more "ignorant and naive" (as you put it).
I don't even see how you can dispute that.
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the older people get the easier it is to fool them with just the slightest information
This is a false statement. There are plenty of older people that don’t fall for this shite and can see it a mile away. It’s ignorant and nieve people that fall for this shite and they aren’t all old either.
That absolutely is not a false statement. I am not saying that every single older person falls for this shite...just that the older someone gets the easier they are to convince and fool because as you age into senior life, you often become more "ignorant and naive" (as you put it).
I don't even see how you can dispute that.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 8:39 am to CocomoLSU
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you often become more "ignorant and naive"
So you think that as people age they become less informed (which is what ignorant means) and lacking worldly experience and understanding (which is what naive means)????? I find myself quite the opposite. I’m much more informed and have much more worldly experience and understanding than I did when I was younger.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 8:46 am to ultratiger89
Yes, less informed/ignorant of how scams work with newer technology and access, and naive in not understanding the scams and the lengths to which people will take advantage for monetary gain.
You think it's a coincidence that scams like these often work on the elderly more than most other types of people (outside of children, maybe)?
You think it's a coincidence that scams like these often work on the elderly more than most other types of people (outside of children, maybe)?
Posted on 10/15/26 at 9:28 am to lsuconnman
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Old people are the worst.
Infants are even less competent.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 10:13 am to The Boat
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Are we missing some steps here?
my thought exactly
Posted on 10/15/26 at 12:36 pm to ultratiger89
As people age their frontal lobes become more impaired than in the past. They lose some executive functioning and discernment and are more likely to fall for scams.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 1:05 pm to Jenious
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It would have been a third time if I didn't walk by her office and hear that foreign Indian voice on
I start asking them things like “are you supposed to put saffron in curry dishes?”
They are very appreciative that I am interested in their culture
Posted on 10/15/26 at 1:16 pm to Translator
I got a surprise phone call on Christmas back in 2020. I never heard of the scam but after the call I searched.
The person called, refused to identify himself and insisted I was his Grandpa.
"It's me, Grandpa, your favorite nephew. Remember my name?"
"Help me out here I'm fricking old."
"Say hi this is grandpa and your name"
"Grandpa and your name"
"Stop playing Grandpa."
"I'm 20, I'm not your fricking Grandpa."
So I dug around and found the scam is them recording you saying a person's name, then they use that to call somebody that has that same first name trying to extort money out of them.
The person called, refused to identify himself and insisted I was his Grandpa.
"It's me, Grandpa, your favorite nephew. Remember my name?"
"Help me out here I'm fricking old."
"Say hi this is grandpa and your name"
"Grandpa and your name"
"Stop playing Grandpa."
"I'm 20, I'm not your fricking Grandpa."
So I dug around and found the scam is them recording you saying a person's name, then they use that to call somebody that has that same first name trying to extort money out of them.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 1:47 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
Many older adults grew up in an era where institutions, polite phone callers, and authorities commanded more inherent trust. They may lack the automatic digital cynicism younger generations have developed
Posted on 10/15/26 at 2:15 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
wish we would fire bomb those indian call centers many of these originate from
a guy on youtube used to post videos of him fricking with these people....but man they are some soulless mother frickers trying to convince what they believe is an elderly person to drain their bank accounts.
a guy on youtube used to post videos of him fricking with these people....but man they are some soulless mother frickers trying to convince what they believe is an elderly person to drain their bank accounts.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 3:50 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
My mom fell for the romance scam 2 years ago. She lost $35K paying for the guys ' military trunk" storage fees in Ukraine. So many red flags in that one. Then last week, she called one of those Apple password comprimised emails number. Of course they had her download Whatsapp to continue the convo. She spent 2 entire days on the phone with the scammers. Alarm went off when they said she needed to set up an Escrow account to pay for the attorney fees to prevent being arrested for money laundering,etc.
She has fallen for 3 or 4 others. We have taken her off SM, locked her phone down to not be able to download apps, sent her to scam classes and its still happening. I have her Raymond James accounts locked down now too. Its awful.
She has fallen for 3 or 4 others. We have taken her off SM, locked her phone down to not be able to download apps, sent her to scam classes and its still happening. I have her Raymond James accounts locked down now too. Its awful.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 6:57 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
A few thoughts:
Walgreens has a good fraud unit. Whatever credit card was involved might be able to reverse charges.
Most states have a federally funded crimes against the elderly unit in the state AG's office.
Walgreens has a good fraud unit. Whatever credit card was involved might be able to reverse charges.
Most states have a federally funded crimes against the elderly unit in the state AG's office.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 7:01 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
That sucks.
I’m cool with the firing squad for scammers.
After a long day of work on the road yesterday, I went to finally e-file my taxes on turbo tax (I know, trashy): nope. Someone had claimed our kids on a fraudulent return. (No, it was Jody.)
Now we get to drag our kids to the IRS office and prove they’re ours, to get them PINs.
The amount of grief these assholes put people through is sickening.
I’m cool with the firing squad for scammers.
After a long day of work on the road yesterday, I went to finally e-file my taxes on turbo tax (I know, trashy): nope. Someone had claimed our kids on a fraudulent return. (No, it was Jody.)
Now we get to drag our kids to the IRS office and prove they’re ours, to get them PINs.
The amount of grief these assholes put people through is sickening.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 7:21 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
Reminds me of a story called the three little crooks.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 7:37 pm to Jimmy Hold the Mayo
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We traced the phone number back to a warehouse in Miami
In other news, a warehouse in Miami exploded this morning.
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