this guy called me with name Cousin Carlitos ....he had a central american accent and i dont...so i replied in a serious tone ..i dont know who you are...so i commented this to my wife then she told me there's a scam going on out there ...i googled the phone# and i got this site..so...beware...of scammers..
i received a call and tell me is my cousin from mexico and he come and ask me if i can pass to the airport for him, but i ask for the second last name and he didnt know. so obviously he didnt know. he ask for personal phone numbers.
este joven llamo el día de hoy pretendiendo ser un familiar cercano que vive fuera de mi país y me insistía para que le dijera nombre de un familiar. como yo seguí diciendo que no lo conocía y no dije ningún nombre corto. tengan cuidado ya han pasado varias veces y tratan de extorsionar a la gente.
Well, i got the infamous call this morning. They guy said "good morning primo" which is the equivalent of good morning cousing. I sometimes joke with my real cousins in the Mexico and in the US and we fake voices and play pranks to each other. This guy had a really hard accent. Very distinct from any of the accents in Mexico. One of my cousins was recently in Cuba and i thought he was playing a joke. I played the game with him for a while but noticed his accent didn't change. They guy got mad because i played the game of 'I cannot hear you, are you there?' That's one i started to get suspicious. I then googled the 3313720641 which apparently is a number in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico. Obviously i don't have relatives there.
This spanish speaking guy called my mom.
He said he was a Mexican lawer representing with my female cousin from Europe who was stuck in Mexico.
He then passes the phone to the female cousin and tried to make my mom believe she was my cousin. The funny thing is that they had a couple of names right.
They insisted that my mom give them her cell phone number...and so on. They wanted her to send the 3000$ via moneygram. They gave my mom several phone numbers but none worked except for 331-372-0641.