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re: My wife was scammed
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:13 am to Grasshopper
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:13 am to Grasshopper
Gotdam your wife is stoopid
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Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:13 am to LSU-MNCBABY
I just can't see how anyone falls for this. I'm immediately on high alert if money is brought up.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:16 am to Strannix
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No one would be surprised if you were doing this.
Cope harder
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:17 am to CrappyPants
Well I woke up from the little sleep I got last night and realized it was not a nightmare.
We talked about everything for several hours. They kept telling her she would get the money back when she brought the receipts to the police dept. They kept her on the phone for several hours saying she would forfeit all money if she told anyone. We did have a large amount of money in the checking account because we are taking a trip to Croatia soon.
It very hard to understand and the story sounds so incredibly stupid but she freaked out. She now wants to sell some of her jewelry to get the money back. I would never let her do that. I know this whole thing is crazy and I’m still sick to my stomach. It’s the money but it’s also someone taking advantage of us. They had all of our information social security numbers, address etc. They had southern accents and were very polite and well spoken.
We are now finding charges on one of our credit cards going back to the 3rd of June. This is a fricking nightmare.
It’s tough but you just have to move forward. I appreciate people wind kind comments.
We talked about everything for several hours. They kept telling her she would get the money back when she brought the receipts to the police dept. They kept her on the phone for several hours saying she would forfeit all money if she told anyone. We did have a large amount of money in the checking account because we are taking a trip to Croatia soon.
It very hard to understand and the story sounds so incredibly stupid but she freaked out. She now wants to sell some of her jewelry to get the money back. I would never let her do that. I know this whole thing is crazy and I’m still sick to my stomach. It’s the money but it’s also someone taking advantage of us. They had all of our information social security numbers, address etc. They had southern accents and were very polite and well spoken.
We are now finding charges on one of our credit cards going back to the 3rd of June. This is a fricking nightmare.
It’s tough but you just have to move forward. I appreciate people wind kind comments.
This post was edited on 6/28/25 at 7:20 am
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:17 am to sicboy
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I just can't see how anyone falls for this
I think your prior post was right and it's usually old people.
But civilians who have no experience with the criminal justice system can have brain freeze if they have to deal with it unexpectedly. I deal with it often at my job.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:18 am to LSU-MNCBABY
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Happened to someone I know, they told her they were tracking her location and that she needed to goto a bank, withdraw cash and then go do some coin transfer thing too. Luckily she could only get 5k I think out of the atm bc they don’t have a local bank. She googled the number and they had spoofed the local sheriffs department or something.
She was on the phone with them for like 2 hours doing all this shite
There was a local news story in NOLA within the past few years. It was police bodycam footage of a traffic stop with an officer walking to the car and seeing a 65 year old grandma crying hard with the phone in her hand on a call with the scammer. She tells the officer a similar story. They had her driving all over town to get money wired to them.
That's so sad.
My mom gets letters in the mail from Amazon telling her she has yet to pay these bills. She was concerned and I laughed and told her I don't think Amazon is in the billing business and they definitely are too much of a tech company to mail letters for correspondence,
This post was edited on 6/28/25 at 7:19 am
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:19 am to Mariner
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My mom gets letters in the mail from Amazon telling her she has yet to pay these bills. She was concerned and I laughed and told her I don't think Amazon is in the billing business and they definitely are too much of a tech company to still mail letters,
At least make it seem legit like the constant stream of emails I get with fraudulent Paypal/Quickbooks invoices claiming I owe them money
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:22 am to sicboy
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I just can't see how anyone falls for this. I'm immediately on high alert if money is brought
Its mindboggling. Even if you're dumb enough to think you can buy your way out of ab arrest warrent, how tf can you be so stupid to think the only way to deliver the money to the local authorities is to buy some shitcoin and send it to them
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:24 am to Grasshopper
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saying she would forfeit all money if she told anyone.
There are like 30 obvious scam red flags in this story. She must be a straight smoke show. Well done, grasshopper.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:24 am to Grasshopper
They called me and told me I missed jury duty, and I would be arrested if I didn’t pay them..
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:26 am to Mariner
When those emails were going around a few years ago that they said they caught you whacking it, I freaked out not because I actually thought they had video, but -- they often would spit back a work email password I had. So, I was worried a hacker would email all my contacts about something. But, they make the Bitcoin payment stuff too complicated -- I wouldn't be able to figure out how to pay a ransom if I wanted to.
ETA, I get like five emails a day about my icloud account, which aren't very convincing. But, the spam about my Amazon account looks legit and I have a hard time not biting on it.
ETA, I get like five emails a day about my icloud account, which aren't very convincing. But, the spam about my Amazon account looks legit and I have a hard time not biting on it.
This post was edited on 6/28/25 at 7:28 am
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:29 am to rocksteady
quote:not reading all that. Scams have been around since the beginning of time.
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This thread is a troll.
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
Again this thread is a huge troll. 15 pages is pretty impressive
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:32 am to Mariner
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They shamed me for two paragraphs, and demanded money or they would blast everything on social media.
me texting back a picture of my own a-hole
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:33 am to SallysHuman
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During all of this, not one teller asked her what's the big occasion nor did she bother to text her husband about the shenanigans... but she DID turn herself in to the police AFTER depositing money (I assume twice) into a coinme machine... and **then** she contacted her husband. Who then consulted the FBI agent next door.
this Troll game not to bad
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:46 am to Grasshopper
quote:This statement alone proves you are married to an imbecile
They kept her on the phone for several hours saying she would forfeit all money if she told anyone
Posted on 6/28/25 at 7:59 am to potent357
Who else thinks the fbi neighbor is doing the wife??
Posted on 6/28/25 at 8:01 am to Grasshopper
I shared this thread with my wife as a cautionary tale, and she said that she had a call like that before. She said she just rolled her eyes and hung up. Could have been me.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 8:04 am to Grasshopper
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Well I woke up from the little sleep I got last night and realized it was not a nightmare. We talked about everything for s
It wasn’t her own money but I have seen a women send $240,000 to a “new bank” the ceo of another company wanted the money in.
The most wtf thing ever but looking at the emails, it was flawless. Not enough not to question or call obviously but it was well done by the criminals.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 8:10 am to SlowFlowPro
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But civilians who have no experience with the criminal justice system can have brain freeze if they have to deal with it unexpectedly. I deal with it often at my job.
100% agree. They get those poor folks feeling the pressure.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 8:12 am to MikeBRLA
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She gave $17K away without consulting you? Something is fishy with this story.
OP’s wife likely has a drug addiction and had to make a quick story when OP found out about the missing money
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