Someone tried that with my mom when she was 95 saying that my nephew needed money for bail. She yelled at the caller and said, “you’re lying! My grandson would never be in jail!”
(And God help any caller representing a Democrat candidate.)
Someone tried that with my mom when she was 95 saying that my nephew needed money for bail. She yelled at the caller and said, “you’re lying! My grandson would never be in jail!”
(And God help any caller representing a Democrat candidate.)
My late mother was the same way. She’d tell them her grandsons certainly wouldn’t call her for money since she didn’t have any.
Mom thought it was amusing to keep the scammers on the line and make them think she might actually fall for their scams. We tried to keep her uptodate on the latest scams going around, including the grandchild in distress, just to make sure, but she was pretty savvy. Once she got a call that her son was in trouble and needed a couple thousand dollars immediately. My parents had only daughters so that call was a failure from the get-go.