re: My wife was scammed

This happened to my wife’s uncle. The money is 100% and there’s nothing you can do about it. I’d make my wife sleep in the chicken coop if she did something that stupid

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Does your wife look good? I’ll tell her I am with FBI (Female Body Inspectors) and need to test her out

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I happen to be with the CIA(Crawfish Intelligence Agency,) you and I might be able to combine resources and fix this woman, provided pics are provided, of course

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warrant for your arrest for having sexual relations with a mentally challenged person.

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is this a real law?





If so my wife has some explaining to do

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The scammers did not have an accent.

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I'll make you a deal, I will return half of it to your wife if you post here bobs and vegana pics.

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I'm a prosecutor in Texas and have some experience handling financial crimes.

Sounds like you know but the money is definitely gone. Try and give her some grace. Hard for some to believe but this is incredibly common. More than people even know - many folks are too embarrassed to report these types of crimes.

Others won't understand but I can't tell you how common it is for otherwise intelligent/successful people to fall for this sort of thing. These scammers have become much more sophisticated and are prepared with a great deal of personal information of the victim before calling. This isn't the nigerian prince scams of old.

Don't listen to everyone giving you a hard time or suggesting she's manipulating you. Be as kind as you can in the moment, I'm sure she's beating herself up.

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Great post.

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Was told they had a warrant for her arrest. Withdrew $17,000 and submitted it to some type of coin thing. I am so motherfricking mad I don't know what to do. She is normally not a fricking idiot but this is really hard to take.

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So how big a hit is $17k to you? Before we shite on her, most people don't have access to that. Maybe $17k being shite away is an annoyance to the OP but not crippling. Women do stupid shite. The more money they have access to, the bigger the stupid.

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This thread is a troll.

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As fricking absurd as it sounds, I can assure you it’s happening all day long, every single day, for billions of dollars a year. Working the victim into a frenzy about needing to act immediately and spoofing legit phone numbers are text book examples, and a child’s play level of sophistication. 17k and bitcoin will hardly be glanced at, it’s nothing in comparison. If anything, consider yourself lucky she didn’t carry on for months and 300k before realizing this was a scam. People from all walks of life, success, and levels of education get got.

Drill it into your parents/elder family member’s brains to call you before giving out an iota of info/or moving any money. I’d go so far as to demand access to their online banking so you can monitor it yourself, because they ————-will lie to your face—————- when it occurs. When they chuckle at the possibility of doing such a stupid thing, grab them, look right in their eyes, and say “I’m fricking serious.” - because it’ll 100% happen to someone else in here or your family or someone you know. The banks do what they can to try and prevent it, but have limited tools and front line skills.

OP - change your wife’s phone number. They’ll wait 6-12-18-24 months and come back again as a the concerned Cleco or Entergy person that doesn’t want to cut off your power.

It’s increasing at an alarming rate and will only get worse with more advancements in AI. Ideally old people should be banned from using the internet for their own good. Stop writing and mailing physical checks if at all possible. Good luck

This is a pretty common scam and the scammers are becoming better and better at selling the scenario. They try to get their prospective victims to freak out and not think clearly, making it more likely that the person will go through with sending the funds.

There was a guy on a radio show here in Birmingham that had this happen to him a couple of years ago. The scammers sold it well (and did not sound foreign like most scammers). What was happening finally hit the guy when he was walking up to a bitcoin machine at a grocery store.

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Don't listen to most of the people ITT. They're assholes.

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We aren't the ones that made TWO large withdrawals at TWO different banks without at the very least TEXTING him... it is possible to be on a phone call and text at the same time.