A girl named Nimsi tried to scam my mother out of money with a elaborate story about a car accident and needed money because it was her fault, she asked her for 12,000. What is wrong with people. She even visited them and said she would call back to come over and take them grocery shopping.
How worried should i be about them interviewing people at their home?
I’m so sorry that your family is experiencing a situation like this. Elderly people are vulnerable and need to be protected from scammers.
Tell us more details on your situation and how this occurred.
Best wishes to you and your family. I hope that you find suitable help in the future.
You need to have a sit down with your parents, possibly show them a video of some people who have been taken advantage of.
Be diligent, put some safe guards in place for them.
I asked him which grandson he was ( knowing full well it was a scam). He got really p**** off, hung up.
My father nearly got sucked into one though. He mentioned his grandson’s name and it went from there. Fortunately my mother made him hang up. She knew.
I hate these bottom feeders , wish every bad thing for them. People who advantage of the vulnerable are the lowest of the low.
Yes!!!!
I agree that the police should be called. If for no other reason than for "the record". I was so lucky I had trained Mom before her Dementia got worse to say "My daughter handles my finances". Lucky too, that after my Dad passed Mom got rid of her credit cards. If she did not have the cash, then she didn't buy.
My cordless phone has my contacts in it so when it rings, the persons name comes up. If a number comes up I do not know, I let it go to VM. 9x out out of 10, its a scam and its a hangup when they hear the VM.
What I hate is the people who come to your door saying they are not trying to sell u something so that no soliciting sign u have buy your door means nothing to them. When I nicely say I am not interested I get "but you have not heard what I have to say". Then I ask if they have a permit. Pretty much none do. One guy said he was good for a year. Our township does permits monthly and after saying that, he did not show me the permit.
That’s the best thing to do, let it go to voicemail. If you pick up the phone, they know that it is a live line. If you never answer, they stop calling.
I don’t answer the door if I don’t know the person. I am never going to buy anything from solicitors.
Plus, if it isn’t a solicitor, it is a religious organization or a politician. I’m not joining their church and I don’t want people telling me who to vote for. I do my own research and choose to vote accordingly.
She got a call from a grandson who actually named himself and was in jail in Mexico and needed bail money. She said, "Yeah well that's what you get for partying down there, good luck," and hung up. I then told said grandson to make his FB friends private/hidden. They'll find an elder with the same last name and that's all it takes. She later called my nephew and told him about it and although not happy about the call, had a good laugh as my nephew is studying to be an ordained minister. She knew the call wasn't him but it was startling to know how fast they can get your info and find you.
Pretty much now she lets the calls go to voicemail, picks up if it's legitimate and lets it go if she doesn't recognize it. I had to get snippy with one of the relatives who sarcastically said, "oh...screening your calls..." to which I responded, "Not well enough evidently."
Ask me about how my mother in law was 5 minutes short of going to a store to buy several hundred dollars worth of gift cards so the "sherriff's department won't show up to arrest me."
Fraud is getting completely out of hand.
This isn’t exactly a scam but look at how the shopping networks on television cater to lonely, elderly people.
Or the ‘so called’ charities that prey on the elderly for donations to their television ministries. Old people send money to them out of their social security checks.