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I might be concerned if I had a Grandson

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Basil

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Got a voice mail today in which the guy says "Hi this is So and So (can't remember his name) and I believe your grandson hit my brother with his car yesterday. I need to you bring me $10,000 right away for his medical expenses, etc etc".

Of course I blocked the number (probably was spoofed anyway). I might have been concerned if I had a grandson, but I only have a granddaughter and she's ony two and a half and hardly ever drives the car! :p
 
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Basil said:
Got a voice mail today in which the guy says "Hi this is So and So (can't remember his name) and I believe your grandson hit my brother with his car yesterday. I need to you bring me $10,000 right away for his medical expenses, etc etc".

Of course I blocked the number (probably was spoofed anyway). I might have been concerned if I had a grandson, but I only have a granddaughter and she's ony two and a half and hardly ever drives the car! :p
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I remember reading in the newspaper when I was in college about an attempted bank extortion.
Guy walks into bank and asks for the manager. He tells the manager that he is holding his wife and kid and demands $ from the bank. He tells manager that unless he gets the cash harm will come to the wife and child.
The manger jumped the guy and held him until the police came.
The manager wasn’t married!
 
There was a lady who got one of those calls.
She told them to come by her house & get the money.
She had the cops waiting at her house,& they nailed the
guy.
 
What amazes me is the fact you answer the phone when you don't recognize the number
 
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What amazes me is the fact you answer the phone when you don't recognize the number
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I don't (and didn't) answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. In fact, my phone is set such that if a call comes in that is not in my contact list, that call gets sent straight to voice mail. This was not a call I answered - it was a message left on voice mail.
 
I actually got a text this morning stating that I had been approved by the board of some loan company for $10k that I'd supposedly applied for, despite having unusually low credit scores it said. All I needed to do was provide a bunch of personal information, including bank account numbers for it to be transferred. Went right to the virtual trashcan...
 
A similar event happened to my great-aunt living in Germany many years ago. The perpetrators had a surprising amount of information on my dad - unfortunately enough to convince a 94 year old woman he truly was in trouble. I do not know the sum of money; likely significantly less than 10k, but still real.

Still angry. "Trust but verify."
 
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