Fraudster Messes With The Wrong 73-Year-Old That Decides To Play Along And Gets Him Arrested
We live in times of danger and uncertainty, where every person is at a potential risk – whatever it might be. Our society is full of dishonest individuals who are eager to abuse other people’s kindness and essentially take advantage whenever they get a chance to.
These days the climate is especially good for scammers and all sorts of fraudsters that often target seniors, as they tend to be very trusting. Of course, younger people are at stake too, since those cheats have managed to up their game and are now very convincing. More often than not, the links that you might get sent or those phone calls would be very believable, which is why it’s important to always be on the lookout.
However, not everything is so negative, as a story surfaced where an elderly lady managed to catch a fraudster – and, in fact, dealt with it impressively well.
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A woman deliberately lured a scammer in and had him arrested on the spot
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Jean, a 73-year-old woman from Long Island, and simultaneously a grandmother, received a call from a fraudster that was pretending to be her grandson—however, what the scammer didn’t know was that the lady was fully aware of his malicious intents and was cleverly playing along.
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On a lovely Thursday morning, the woman got a call from her supposed grandson who shared the unfortunate news that he’d been arrested for drunk driving. Though the woman realized that there was no way her grandchildren, who are also far too young, decided to magically acquire some driving licenses over the weekend—she knew that the scammer would not be able to get to her.
The so-called “grandson” asked the woman for $8K as he was arrested for DUI
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The thief, who was so sure of his outstanding abilities, asked the woman for a whopping $8,000 to help and bail him out of jail. Of course, Jean had already prepared a sneaky plan and was doing all the work to lure the fraudster in. She agreed to meet the bail bondsman and let him know that he would be able to collect the money from her house.
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Eventually, the so-called bondsman arrived at the woman’s house to collect the promised cash, although what he didn’t know was that the police squad was also eagerly waiting to confront and catch the lawbreaker. The man rang the doorbell and quickly collected the envelope with the alleged cash, which was actually filled with paper towels.
She invited the scammer to collect the cash from her home where the police were waiting for him
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As soon as the criminal started walking down those stairs, the police officers ran and tackled him right to the ground so he wouldn’t try to escape. The offender was taken into custody and turned out to be a 28-year-old man who was later charged with attempted grand larceny in the third degree.
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Though Jean cleverly played along and managed to save the planet from another charlatan, people do get scammed on a daily basis and sadly the outcome is not usually as great. It is always advised by specialists to be careful, to never reveal any important information and to always be on guard.
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Fellow online users were amazed by how well the situation was handled
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Share on FacebookMy father in his 90s would deliberately frustrate scammers on the phone. He was quite hard of hearing and would repeat everything they said back to them, as if he wasn't sure he heard them correctly. Whenever they asked a question, he would say "What?" as if he hadn't understood them and they'd have to start over. Eventually, they'd realize they were getting anywhere and just hang up.
I love how she’s just leaning on the porch rail in that still shot. Reminds me of the Baby Yoda meme sipping coffee/tea 😂
That's the best part. She looks so comfortably satisfied watching that worthless leech munch on her lawn.
Load More Replies...My Grammy gets these calls once in a while from someone claiming to be one of her grandkids who needs bail in Mexico. She calmly says, "Sure, I will absolutely help you out. As soon as you tell me what I gave you last Christmas." They always hang up.
My retired father would also mess with telephone callers. You know how they always ask 'how are you today?' Well, my dad would answer. In lengthy detail. On any given day he might have horribly huge bleeding hemorrhoids or erectile dysfunction or urine that was both bloody and filled with floaty things and on and on. He was amazing and could hold his composure - not laughing- until the caller just gave up. It was a thing of beauty to behold.
I love messing with scammers! My fave thing to do is when they call, I will answer in a worried tone. The person starts talking and I will cut them off with "OMG I am so glad you finally called!" The guy gets all excited and starts talking some more and I cut them off again with "Ok so I did like you told me and I rented a wood chipper and I had to cut them up to fit them in but now there is blood everywhere and YOU are going to have to come over and help me clean up this damn mess! It was your idea so you need to help me!" I either hear a faint "omg" or a gasp or click. Then I laugh my ass off!
That's stellar! I recently had an internet/home security (probably) scammer drive out to our place. When he realised that he wasn't talking me into switching providers (we've been happy with ours for donkey's years), he went into the home security spiel. I explained my home security was a shotgun, that this area is notorious for having incompetent police (it actually is - keystone cops are more capable), and that I'm not just a cranky redhead, I'm also an avid hunter with several hundred acres in which to hide a body. When he started to argue that I might not be able to get to a weapon quickly, I told him that I had a 9mm two feet from me, and if he'd look down at the large flowerpot to his left, he'd see it was filled with spent shotgun shells and bullet casings (we have coyotes/coydog predators). He thanked me politely and left.
Load More Replies...She's awesome and brave. I wouldn't have them come to my house though. I get these calls all the time. I have no grandkids (or kids for that manner.) My mom has dementia and got one. When the woman said she was her granddaughter, mom said, "is this Robin?" Of course scammer said yes. I got on the phone and she said her car broke down at Walgreens. I said, "oh the one on Florence rd?" She said yes. She hung up on me when I told her there's no Florence rd here. She called right back, trying again. I told her to she already tried to scam us...move along. I get so mad that they take advantage of the most vulnerable people.
Had a similar one with a guy very obviously from india (he mixed up vs and ws), tell me he was a microsoft support technician and my windows had a "wirus". I told him "I don't have a windows so I can't have a wirus". He then carries on with his script not noticing my response. I say to him "where are you calling from?" He replies, "california". I'm like "ok, so redmond, washington, where microsoft is based, in california ?" "Yes." "OK what's the street address of microsoft?" He gives some street address in cali. I look it up on google earth. Someone's house. So I'm like, "well according to google earth that's a house. So maybe try scam someone else who is stupid? Also I have recorded this call and the FBI are aware of it and are going to hunt you down!" *click* he drops the call.
Load More Replies...My father-in-law almost fell for this. What gave the scammer away was he used my daughter's dead name. My father-in-law knew she hadn't been called that in years, and had had her named changed legally. What is scary is he would have done it, had it not been for that.
"Hey, Grandpa, this is David. I need bail money...I got arrested for a DUI. It's 8000 bucks, sorry". "David? I don't have a grandkid named David. Her name's Daniela, you filthy scam."
Load More Replies...Great job! Now it's making me think maybe instead of playing along just so I can piss them off I should be more productive and get them caught.
I wouldn't. It's pretty rare the police are interested, and you really don't want to be giving out your home address.
Load More Replies...Someone tried this with my 92 year old Mom last year but upset her so I got on the phone and they started their spiel with me. I told them there were two problems with their information... My son doesn't drink and he DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE. They hung up.
Yeah this is not a great idea if you dont know how violent the guy might be. Maybe give him a fake address (not your actual home), and tell the cops to pick him up there. Because when he gets out of jail, he knows where you live. Only now he's angry.
I'm pretty sure he knew where her house was already if he was pretending to be her grandson. And she stayed in the house while he picked up the envelope.
Load More Replies...No seriously don’t talk to these scammers tho! All they need is to record your voice saying yes and that’s your voice signature! Then they go and do fraudulent things with your voice “! She lucked out but y’all be careful :)
We also had a scammer/possible burglars calling to do a survey for a holiday company. I was young and thought it was real and kept answering the questions. Scammer asked us, “how often do you go on holiday?” My family is poor so i replied, “once every five years, but only half of us ever go”. “How often do you go out?” “Not very often”.“Do you have a tv? What brand?” We had a 17 year old analog tv, even the scammer had never heard of that brand’s name. The alarm bell only started ringing when they asked us how many doors we have in the house and if we need any windows needing to fix. The person in the phone was a lady with friendly voice and i really thought it was real. If you’re young, elderly and naive, it’s so easy to fall for these scams.
My dad is retired and has plenty of time to mess with people like this. He had one person call him two days in a row, and he told the guy not to call back or he would be sorry. Well the guy called back the next day. My dad started messing with him until he hung up, so my dad called back and kept called back immediately after the guy would hang up. He did this nonstop for hours until the guy begged my dad to stop calling him. The guy never called my dad again.
a 76-year-old friend of mine tried to lure the scammer into his home but the guy caught on, unfortunately. I think my friend laid it on a bit too thick with his senile-grandpa approach.
I don't get it. Did she told the scammer she is blind? Must have.
Considering the nature of the above post, I believe that placing your ad hear (Neha Rani) is incredibly bad taste! ☹
My grandpa got one of these calls his reply, "George is in jail!?" None of his grandparents are named George
I love how she just walks out on the porch, c***s her foot up and watches the show. 🤣
oh my dad does this this is the last one that happened: "hello sir we would like to ask you about your honda odyssey" sure ask away (keep in mind he no longer owns this car) "we noticed you bought this car a while back and we would just like to check the mileage" oh of course i have 1 million miles left on it "o-one million miles...um sir are you sure?" yes im very sure im also very sure that your tryna scam me for money because i no longer own this car YOU HAVE A NICE DAY LIL B*TCH *hangs up*
Smart grandma oh UM if anyone knows dharr mann (yes i watch him dont judge) he has a video like this
I loved this, but my confusion is ...isn't a bail bondsman the person that actually puts up the money for someone that has none so they can get out of jail ? the people have to give collateral or something sure, but isn't it odd that they were saying they were the bail bondsman and not just 'a friend'
I have a feeling, that they already know, where she lives...
Load More Replies...Kudo's to her wish I could do the same! I get at least 20 calls a day from these scammers! Sometimes it's great to lead them on then just try their scams on them! Its fun If you have the time!
I like to think there were consequences for this creep, but I suspect he was back on the phone within an hour.
Noooo the comment section has already established that he gets a cell next to the "Nigerian prince"!!!
Load More Replies...I got one of those claiming to be my grandson, who was 5 years old at the time, I told him I'd wire the money to Western Union and just use his name for I.D.
Wait a minute. She lives on Long Island AND she's a grandmother? Now I've seen everything.
My father in his 90s would deliberately frustrate scammers on the phone. He was quite hard of hearing and would repeat everything they said back to them, as if he wasn't sure he heard them correctly. Whenever they asked a question, he would say "What?" as if he hadn't understood them and they'd have to start over. Eventually, they'd realize they were getting anywhere and just hang up.
I love how she’s just leaning on the porch rail in that still shot. Reminds me of the Baby Yoda meme sipping coffee/tea 😂
That's the best part. She looks so comfortably satisfied watching that worthless leech munch on her lawn.
Load More Replies...My Grammy gets these calls once in a while from someone claiming to be one of her grandkids who needs bail in Mexico. She calmly says, "Sure, I will absolutely help you out. As soon as you tell me what I gave you last Christmas." They always hang up.
My retired father would also mess with telephone callers. You know how they always ask 'how are you today?' Well, my dad would answer. In lengthy detail. On any given day he might have horribly huge bleeding hemorrhoids or erectile dysfunction or urine that was both bloody and filled with floaty things and on and on. He was amazing and could hold his composure - not laughing- until the caller just gave up. It was a thing of beauty to behold.
I love messing with scammers! My fave thing to do is when they call, I will answer in a worried tone. The person starts talking and I will cut them off with "OMG I am so glad you finally called!" The guy gets all excited and starts talking some more and I cut them off again with "Ok so I did like you told me and I rented a wood chipper and I had to cut them up to fit them in but now there is blood everywhere and YOU are going to have to come over and help me clean up this damn mess! It was your idea so you need to help me!" I either hear a faint "omg" or a gasp or click. Then I laugh my ass off!
That's stellar! I recently had an internet/home security (probably) scammer drive out to our place. When he realised that he wasn't talking me into switching providers (we've been happy with ours for donkey's years), he went into the home security spiel. I explained my home security was a shotgun, that this area is notorious for having incompetent police (it actually is - keystone cops are more capable), and that I'm not just a cranky redhead, I'm also an avid hunter with several hundred acres in which to hide a body. When he started to argue that I might not be able to get to a weapon quickly, I told him that I had a 9mm two feet from me, and if he'd look down at the large flowerpot to his left, he'd see it was filled with spent shotgun shells and bullet casings (we have coyotes/coydog predators). He thanked me politely and left.
Load More Replies...She's awesome and brave. I wouldn't have them come to my house though. I get these calls all the time. I have no grandkids (or kids for that manner.) My mom has dementia and got one. When the woman said she was her granddaughter, mom said, "is this Robin?" Of course scammer said yes. I got on the phone and she said her car broke down at Walgreens. I said, "oh the one on Florence rd?" She said yes. She hung up on me when I told her there's no Florence rd here. She called right back, trying again. I told her to she already tried to scam us...move along. I get so mad that they take advantage of the most vulnerable people.
Had a similar one with a guy very obviously from india (he mixed up vs and ws), tell me he was a microsoft support technician and my windows had a "wirus". I told him "I don't have a windows so I can't have a wirus". He then carries on with his script not noticing my response. I say to him "where are you calling from?" He replies, "california". I'm like "ok, so redmond, washington, where microsoft is based, in california ?" "Yes." "OK what's the street address of microsoft?" He gives some street address in cali. I look it up on google earth. Someone's house. So I'm like, "well according to google earth that's a house. So maybe try scam someone else who is stupid? Also I have recorded this call and the FBI are aware of it and are going to hunt you down!" *click* he drops the call.
Load More Replies...My father-in-law almost fell for this. What gave the scammer away was he used my daughter's dead name. My father-in-law knew she hadn't been called that in years, and had had her named changed legally. What is scary is he would have done it, had it not been for that.
"Hey, Grandpa, this is David. I need bail money...I got arrested for a DUI. It's 8000 bucks, sorry". "David? I don't have a grandkid named David. Her name's Daniela, you filthy scam."
Load More Replies...Great job! Now it's making me think maybe instead of playing along just so I can piss them off I should be more productive and get them caught.
I wouldn't. It's pretty rare the police are interested, and you really don't want to be giving out your home address.
Load More Replies...Someone tried this with my 92 year old Mom last year but upset her so I got on the phone and they started their spiel with me. I told them there were two problems with their information... My son doesn't drink and he DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE. They hung up.
Yeah this is not a great idea if you dont know how violent the guy might be. Maybe give him a fake address (not your actual home), and tell the cops to pick him up there. Because when he gets out of jail, he knows where you live. Only now he's angry.
I'm pretty sure he knew where her house was already if he was pretending to be her grandson. And she stayed in the house while he picked up the envelope.
Load More Replies...No seriously don’t talk to these scammers tho! All they need is to record your voice saying yes and that’s your voice signature! Then they go and do fraudulent things with your voice “! She lucked out but y’all be careful :)
We also had a scammer/possible burglars calling to do a survey for a holiday company. I was young and thought it was real and kept answering the questions. Scammer asked us, “how often do you go on holiday?” My family is poor so i replied, “once every five years, but only half of us ever go”. “How often do you go out?” “Not very often”.“Do you have a tv? What brand?” We had a 17 year old analog tv, even the scammer had never heard of that brand’s name. The alarm bell only started ringing when they asked us how many doors we have in the house and if we need any windows needing to fix. The person in the phone was a lady with friendly voice and i really thought it was real. If you’re young, elderly and naive, it’s so easy to fall for these scams.
My dad is retired and has plenty of time to mess with people like this. He had one person call him two days in a row, and he told the guy not to call back or he would be sorry. Well the guy called back the next day. My dad started messing with him until he hung up, so my dad called back and kept called back immediately after the guy would hang up. He did this nonstop for hours until the guy begged my dad to stop calling him. The guy never called my dad again.
a 76-year-old friend of mine tried to lure the scammer into his home but the guy caught on, unfortunately. I think my friend laid it on a bit too thick with his senile-grandpa approach.
I don't get it. Did she told the scammer she is blind? Must have.
Considering the nature of the above post, I believe that placing your ad hear (Neha Rani) is incredibly bad taste! ☹
My grandpa got one of these calls his reply, "George is in jail!?" None of his grandparents are named George
I love how she just walks out on the porch, c***s her foot up and watches the show. 🤣
oh my dad does this this is the last one that happened: "hello sir we would like to ask you about your honda odyssey" sure ask away (keep in mind he no longer owns this car) "we noticed you bought this car a while back and we would just like to check the mileage" oh of course i have 1 million miles left on it "o-one million miles...um sir are you sure?" yes im very sure im also very sure that your tryna scam me for money because i no longer own this car YOU HAVE A NICE DAY LIL B*TCH *hangs up*
Smart grandma oh UM if anyone knows dharr mann (yes i watch him dont judge) he has a video like this
I loved this, but my confusion is ...isn't a bail bondsman the person that actually puts up the money for someone that has none so they can get out of jail ? the people have to give collateral or something sure, but isn't it odd that they were saying they were the bail bondsman and not just 'a friend'
I have a feeling, that they already know, where she lives...
Load More Replies...Kudo's to her wish I could do the same! I get at least 20 calls a day from these scammers! Sometimes it's great to lead them on then just try their scams on them! Its fun If you have the time!
I like to think there were consequences for this creep, but I suspect he was back on the phone within an hour.
Noooo the comment section has already established that he gets a cell next to the "Nigerian prince"!!!
Load More Replies...I got one of those claiming to be my grandson, who was 5 years old at the time, I told him I'd wire the money to Western Union and just use his name for I.D.
Wait a minute. She lives on Long Island AND she's a grandmother? Now I've seen everything.
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