So I get a call from my dad today, he said that they just got a call and drug dealers have my sister and they are gonna kill her if I don't pay them $600 that I owe them. It all started that my sister got a call from a Chicago number saying that they were the Chicago police and that me and my dad were in a fatal car accident so they needed my moms number. My sister gave them my moms number and they called her and said that I was driving a drug dealers car and crashed it and they have my sister and they are gonna kill her if my parents don't pay them the $600 that I owe them. I called my sister and she was safe at her friends house, I rushed to pick her up while my dad called the police. We have no idea of how they knew my family enough to know how we were related.
I got a call that my brother had gotten in a bad accident and had hit someone that was running from the police and was told not to call the police to report the accident. Apparently, my brother called the police anyway and the guy pulled a gun and beat him with it, then called his friends to take him to the projects in Humbolt park where they were waiting for me to come with $1000.
We just got a call from this number that said my wife's brother was in a bad accident also. However, we got disconnected in the middle of the call, so hopefully it is just some terrible scam.
The same thing that's been happening to other folks here happened to me - some guy calls my phone, tells me that my brother (I don't have a brother) got into a terrible accident and that he was at gunpoint, blah blah, etc. etc.
The guy tried to make me think it was my dad, and so I actually called my dad on his cellphone through Google Voice - he picked up, was just fine, no harm done to him, was asleep the entire time.
It's funny how easy it is to debunk these scammers.
This person called my mom saying i was shot in the head. I do not understand why he would do this but someone should call the police and trace the number