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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