One more thing not to worry about.
Posted on 11/24/2008 11:30:40 AM PST by nickcarraway
No such thing as a “new scam”, just old ones reinvented.
They should include themselves as untrustworthy for trying to do an end-run around their own kids.
How did they not know their own grandchild?
The only comment I can make is that my grandparents would have either laughed their asses off or blown one helluva gasket if I had asked them not to tell my parents that I was in trouble with the law. I’m sure this old couple are very nice people, but to give in to some kid’s request that they send him thousands of dollars and not tell his parents was the first door that opened them up to this scam. That’s taking GP love way too far. I almost...I said ALMOST...don’t feel sorry for them.
One more thing not to worry about.
You have good family.
My thought exactly. The $33,000 loss may be pretty minimal when compared to the fact that their child and child-in-law have now learned they can’t be trusted not to help their grandchildren hide serious wrongdoing from their parents.
Ahhh. . . .but until they have Perky Katie (or some other MSM “news” reporter, report it), those grandparents will never hear of the scam. . .or believe it until the MSM reports it. In my home. . . my mother-in-law listens intently to—and believes EVERYTHING—the Perky One tells her. Unless it was reported by the Perky One, it didn't happen, and if it was reported by the Perky One, it happened just like she reported it. Maddening.
The Grand Haven couple lost more than money. They lost their faith in the inherent goodness of people.
Geez, how charmed a life have they led?
“bull Never give out personal identifying information such as bank account or credit card account numbers to anyone you do not know and never send money to an unknown account or entity.”
doh
This is an old scam. I’ve heard about this one for years.
I really, really hate this type of scammer, who play on their victims’ good nature and desire to help others.
Scammers, like the Nigerian bank scammers, who prey on people’s greed (and idiocy) are of a higher moral caliber, IMO, though still wrong of course. I’d gladly let 10 of them go free, if doing so could put 1 grandparent scammer behind bars.
We keep getting a telephone call, that is not a live person, but a recorded voice, saying they have attempted to contact me several times and I must contact them immediately to “correct” the problem. THE PROBLEM is, I do not know who this is calling, because the voice only gives his name, and not who it is that I am suppose to call, what company etc. he is talking about. I told my wife, that if this was such a problem, why is not a live person calling us, and not just a voice mail and giving me a phone number. The real biggie is that we do not have any outstanding problems and have absolutely no idea what scam this is. Anyone else got this call?
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oops forgot...Love the new graphic Slim!!!
what i like to know is why these scam artist never seem to get caught. You wire money somewhere, you could trace it to the bank account the money goes to and catch the guy
Yep, Gramps and Granny trying to be the kid's 'pal' rather than a responsible co-parenting figure! Glad it happened to them to be an example to other fuddy-duddies that might be tempted to do the same.
By the way, most of the suggestions given are bunk. It's not terribly hard to find the names of siblings, etc., from newspaper accounts of obituaries.
One lie (the scammers) followed by another (the grandparents) leads to problems. Who knew?
Dang! Hope they catch the culprits and string them up.
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