Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Need Phone Scammer Help?

So today my grandparents got a call from a private number and this person (claiming he was Wallace Spearman with an indian voice) was a scammer because I was listening to the phone call and the guy said "You have won a car and 2 million dollars and blah blah blah blah...." Unfortunately I think my grandpa gave this person his social security number, and home adress, and probably some other bullcrap. Later he called again but this time my grandma talked to him. He basically wanted my grandma to go to a Western Union in Walmart and pay 12k to get some certified receipt and some other bullshit that I know is fake (like Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey have donated to this sweepstakes). Well he said he's going to call back with someone named "Mrs. Lopez" who he claims is the local attorney general who doesn't even exist. I think the companies name is Golden Nugget Sweepstakes and Lottery Company, but im not 100% sure (I looked it up on the internet and others have got scammed with different names). My grandma said she was going to have the police at the house just to double check everything and he's like "oh we are going to bring the FBI (hahahaha)." Is there anything we can do to stop this phone scammer and potentially get him arrested? I think he may want to meet up for the deal so he might live in the area. We are going to the police station in an hour to give them information regarding this, but we dont have their phone number, the person's name is fake, and idk if the companies name is correct. Should we lure him to the house and contact the police to capture him? I just need any suggestion on what to do here, because if my grandparents keep giving away information, they are going to get screwed over.Need Phone Scammer Help?
That scammer isn't going to visit anyone's house, he only travels to pick up the victim's cash from Western Union.



Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.



Your grandparents are on that scammer's 'potential sucker' list and the scammer will try again to separate your grandparents from their cash. He will send your grandparents more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great deals, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your grandparent's phone number to all his scamming buddies who will also call your grandparents using dozens of fake names all with the exact same goal, your grandparents sending them their cash via Western Union or moneygram.



There are scam-busting sites where you can ask for advice on how to protect your grandparents from the flood of scammers that will try to separate them from their money, via phone call, email and snail mail.Need Phone Scammer Help?
Grandpa is going to get many more phone calls like this.

Now, his name has been sold.



Time for grandpa's children to take over his finances.

They will completely take over the checkbook and give him an allowance and pay his bills for him. At a certain age this is a must
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