These scams have been a pet peeve of mine for many years.
A great many people have been hurt by the evil scammers.
I will be the first to admit that I’ve been taken for a hundred or two hundre a few times in my life with the idea of bigger money to be made.
unless you count woman that I fell hard for, for reasons that I can’t put here.
Then I’ve been taken for many thousands in fine restaurants, vacations and jewelry.
Qnd for what? Many of nights of seemingly endless Bliss?
Well...
Yes, it is great. I don’t feel sorry for this particular woman, as she was participating in something she thought was illegal.
But I become really incensed when I learn of old people losing their life savings in scams. A senior in a town about 8 minutes from my house wound up losing $10K to a scammer posing as her grandson who was in trouble.
There are a fair number of seniors here: seniors come here to retire, while young people leave the area, as there is not much work for them. It seems like we were targeted for this scam. I received 2 separate calls about a year apart from men each claiming to be my grandson in a jam.