I’m waiting for the day my MIL gets scammed. She will reply to emails that say “$53.26 has been charged to your Paypal account - please call this number if you did not authorize this.”
“Hello? I got an email - and I don’t even have a Paypal account...”
She does this with all of them, in spite of my wife telling her to not even open them (some can corrupt your computer just by clicking on them).
My son got scammed out of $100 from a text using his Pastor’s phone number. They said he was buying something for the youth group but his card wasn’t working, so could my son put money on some sort of card and he would pay him back.
My son said “Well, it was early and the text woke me up. The text was rush-rush and it sounded like he was in a panic.”
Years and years ago I got a call from some police department saying that the stuff I had bought from Ebay was stolen and that I needed to return it to their police department.
I told them I didn’t know that it was stolen, but if it was I would cooperate fully. I asked them to send me a formal letter on their letterhead with the case number, serial numbers and description of the stole equipment. (Never heard from them.) I seem to recall I thought it was a 50/50 chance that it really was the cops. Silly me.
Same with my father. He answers unknown phone numbers even though we have told him they just want his voice so they can AI it and scam him.