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Darryl

Grandparent scam going around. Early this morning received call from “this is one of your grandsons” had a car accident have stitches in my mouth so probably can’t understand me. I went to wedding ( he really did) last Sunday on way home had an accident. Blood alcohol was over limit ‘cause I drank some wine. I’m in jail. Mom’s at work ( she really was) Public Defender will call with details cops telling me to get off phone. I will tell mom when I get out I’m so embarrassed. Attorney called and asked me to send bond for bail. Gave instructions and so forth and even had the name of the store to send funds through. Later attorney called and said the DA was pressing charges but the judge was willing to let G/S out of jail for additional bond. Phone number used by “attorney” answered as Public Defenders Office. Called my daughter and found G/S was cooking dinner. CAREFUL

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Doug Ladendorf

There are a lot of underhanded dirty tricks. Things get confusing and it's had to discern between good and bad. I saw my parents go through that and now my inlaws. Really sad that people prey on the vintage years.

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John Veerkamp

when does vintage start ? Some of us must also be in that category by now.

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klowwn

Sadly this scam works. Last week in our local paper an 80yr old lady got scammed for $12,000 with the grandson in jail scam.

Ricc

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Bill Howatt

I don't think you can attribute victims to all being in the senior category. Also, if you've never been hit by this scam don't spend time wondering how anybody could be so stupid to fall for it. When it is a family member supposedly in trouble a big dose of emotion gets added to the more rational components.

I got a similar message but by email from "my sister" who had been robbed of her ID and was in trouble in England. My sister travels a lot and if anybody would be in England it would be her.

Email was written reasonably well but the last line didn't sound like her and being scam-aware I was immediately suspicious but it was my sister and the whole thing was quite upsetting. Anyway, after a few phone calls we finally located her travelling somewhere in the US. My cousin received the same email and was getting ready to send the money. I think my sister's email address book got hacked because we weren't the only 2 to get the scam message.

Bill