MaryAnne
Governor
I was not going to post this on the main board,but for those of you who have older people in your family,I think you should know.
I had a phone call this morning and it started as usual when my brother calls,he said, "Do you know who this is? I said my brother"? as usual.Then he said he was called by an old friends family that their Son had died in a car accident in Mexico City,I asked if he was at the Airport,he said not yet,but wanted to tell me something and trusted me to keep it from his family.
He then went into how he rode with a person he thought could be trusted instead of calling a cab. Then he said,the driver was arrested and that I knew he would never touch drugs. By that time I was just listening because it had all the earmarks of a scam. I also knew it was not my brother's voice. He then called me Mary,I knew for sure it was not him,told him this was nothing but a scam. Called my Brother's wife,she called him at his office.
I am telling you this because there have been a number of older women sending money for Grandsons in Canada,etc. One was even warned by her bank. She still sent the money.
I had a phone call this morning and it started as usual when my brother calls,he said, "Do you know who this is? I said my brother"? as usual.Then he said he was called by an old friends family that their Son had died in a car accident in Mexico City,I asked if he was at the Airport,he said not yet,but wanted to tell me something and trusted me to keep it from his family.
He then went into how he rode with a person he thought could be trusted instead of calling a cab. Then he said,the driver was arrested and that I knew he would never touch drugs. By that time I was just listening because it had all the earmarks of a scam. I also knew it was not my brother's voice. He then called me Mary,I knew for sure it was not him,told him this was nothing but a scam. Called my Brother's wife,she called him at his office.
I am telling you this because there have been a number of older women sending money for Grandsons in Canada,etc. One was even warned by her bank. She still sent the money.
