Moultonboro email scam alert

[Sue Doe-Nym]

Originally Posted by MeredithMan

...a lot of these characters specifically target the elderly, under the assumption that many older folks are trusting, (i.e., not suspecting someone is trying to scam them), or that they may be in a weakened mental state.

A couple years ago, my in-laws, (in their mid 80's at the time and starting to show signs of forgetfulness and mild dementia), got the call from "their grand-daughter's lawyer", stating that she had been erroneously arrested in New York City and she was too embarrassed to call her parents to bail her out and to send 5 grand to the atty, who would handle getting her out of jail. They literally got in the car and drove to their local bank to get the money. The local banker had known them for years and when she started to ask them some probing questions, figured out pretty quickly that they were being scammed.

I had this happen to me very recently: my grandson, teary and muffled, begging me for bail money because he had been in an accident while driving drunk. It actually sounded a bit like him….but he’s in college, has no car, and someone was trying to take granny to the cleaners. Some nasty operators out there!

[TheProfessor]

A very smart and well educated lady.

Neighbor.
Computer/email message.
Came up to me while in yard. Stated that she had won a lottery.
In Nigeria.
All they wanted was $100.00 for processing and they would send her $100,000.

She asked me if I thought that this was legitimate.

Go figure.

[TheTimeTraveler]

Originally Posted by TheProfessor

A very smart and well educated lady.

Neighbor.
Computer/email message.
Came up to me while in yard. Stated that she had won a lottery.
In Nigeria.
All they wanted was $100.00 for processing and they would send her $100,000.

She asked me if I thought that this was legitimate.

Go figure.

I got the same email.

I told them to deduct their fees and send me what was left.

That was the last I ever heard from them. I wonder why?

[tis]

Originally Posted by Sue Doe-Nym

I had this happen to me very recently: my grandson, teary and muffled, begging me for bail money because he had been in an accident while driving drunk. It actually sounded a bit like him….but he’s in college, has no car, and someone was trying to take granny to the cleaners. Some nasty operators out there!

We got that too, he even knew the grandson's name and state and had the accent down.

[IslandRadio]

The English/grammatical errors would be the first give-away that this was/is phishing.