Good for her for checking! The story usually goes like this: After several hours the person has had a car wreck etc, then its can you send me some money?
This is a type of "grandparent scam"
See:
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/fina ... scams_5608.html
Report is to:
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
http://www.fbi.gov/
http://www.nw3c.org/
and your local authorities.
Mom received call from male. Said he was her nephew, missed her and his uncle. Caller was very convincing in his claim of being her nephew and pulled family info out of her to convince her of who he was. He claimed he was giving a friend a ride (from 3 states away in Nevada), would be in Texas in our home town the next day. When asked if his mom knew he was coming he said entire family knew, he asked for her personal cell phone number in order to call her when he was one hour away. My mom reused to answer any more subsequent s calls from this number 2 on hose phone the other call on her cell. She did call her sis in law "Michael' s mother" and discovered nephew was not coming to Texas and he had not called anyone. This was sufficient evidence she had been targeted for a scam.
Good for her for checking! The story usually goes like this: After several hours the person has had a car wreck etc, then its can you send me some money?
This is a type of "grandparent scam"
See:
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/fina ... scams_5608.html
Report is to:
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
http://www.fbi.gov/
http://www.nw3c.org/
and your local authorities.