Someone called our house phone just a few minutes ago claiming to be a cousin. It wasn't this number but instead: 331-807-7091. They were looking for my mom and knew both her first and last name. They said they were relatives on her side of the family, but wanted me to guess their name trying to make me feel bad that I had forgotten my "cousin." It was suspicious because 1) my cousins wouldn't play the guessing game for as long as this guy did 2) he spoke with a Mexican accent, and my family isn't from Mexico 3) my cousins refer to my mom by a different name, not the one they used. They finally gave me a name and I do have a family member by that name and I started speaking in English asking why he didn't tell me who he was at first. They completely didn't understand what I was saying and hung up. So annoying and scary. This is why I don't answer the house phone.
It is not necessary that this be made public but my Name is: Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra, Esq.
My niece's son is an American citizen born in Barcelona, Spain. He is a PhD in Mathematics from MIT with residence in same Mass. area and travels as required by.his job. Currently he is taking care of his ailing mother in Puerto Rico. We received a strange phone call here in Deltona, Florida (386 259-4265) from 331-807-3856 asking for "Tio" (Spanish for Uncle) as my niece calls me. Since I only have nieces and only one has sons that young, with a Spain accent and strangely sound like the caller, I thought I was talking to my niece's young son. He said: "I am in Mexico and will stop in Florida to see about some land in your area." I replied that he could stay with us and would show him a lake front acreage he may be interested in. I asked about his mother and he replied that she was stable but still recovering slowly. This is the actual situation with my niece under special care at her home! He said he would call back right away to give me more details about the trip. Within 15-20 minutes he called again and sound worried and apologetic, he said he accidentally crossed a red light at the Mexican airport area and was detained and was assigned a lawyer to handle the case because of high alerts about narcotraffic, terrorist activities at the airport and said: "Here is the lawyer, he wants to talk to you". What followed was the the first chapter of the unsuspected extortion scheme libretto. He said in typical Mexican accent that he needed to deposit $1 K with legal Mexican authorities while an investigation continued. The money was refundable within a month and gave me instructions about money transferring procedure (at my request). The money was processed accordingly. Within a short time the same phone # called to inform me having received the money but apparently a new development had delay his departure. "He will explain, here he is.".My nieces, son explained.
Enter Chapter 2 of the extortion scheme: This was an Oscar winning performance! He was almost crying Nd said that when they open his hand luggage, they found some $10 K undeclared cash and was held under detention. "I didn't know I had to declare anything personal.", he said and asked for help again by depositing a required fee to liberate the money. We had to repeat same trip to the money transferring store, this time for $2,440.00. End of Ch. 2. Chapter 3 open with same story, this time a similar amount of undeclared cash found in the laptop by the x-ray monitor. This time we all got suspitious and began taking steps by asking for names, position, letting them know we were recording these conversation. Meanwhile, my daughters took notes and tried to contact my niece by phone. The same 'retained lawyer' begged me to warn young mathematician to tell the truth because those trying to help him were compromising their own jobs. They said they had arranged for the next flight to Florida and would take him to airport. That was a well rehearsed act! Meanwhile we were gathering data. Before we could contact my niece to see if she knew her son was traveling with all that money, etc., the SAME phone # called, this time from the flight departure area for travelers boarding American Airlines Flight # 319 with destination Daytona Beach arriving at 5:45 pm EST. The opening paragraph of this last Chapter of this tragic comedy featured my niece's son crying because he was detained again because he was running to catch the flight and accidentally hit a young girl with his hand luggage and she fell down the escalator and fractured the skull and was unconscious. Again the ubiquitous retained lawyer appeared, this time asking for a temporary settlement so he wouldn't lose his flight. He said that because there existed exculpatory evidence from the camera monitors that it was an accident, etc. He said he could settle for the hospital expenses only and insurance would return money anyway. Then my cell phone rang with evidence that the young mathematician was still in Puerto Rico alongside his ailing mother as usual. I warned the lawyer from the airport who quoted citations from the Mexican Constitution's provision to assist traveling passengers under Pena Nieto presidency, He was warned that we would turn to FBI authorities all evidence, including recordings we made during this costly saga.
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got a call today apparenty they knew our last name was saying she was my fathers sister. my dad is an only child when I told her that she swiched it all around and hung up. called the number and its says it doesn't exist.
Same thing happened to me about twenty min ago,
He ask me to guess who it was, i said that his voice sounded unfamiliar to me and he stated that he was a cousin of me, calling me by my name, i freak out and hung the phone. I hope they don't call again.