They called me today, very creepy cause he sorta understands latino culture, as we tend to have large families, so he posed as a nephew and teased me that i couldn't remember his name. for awhile i was caught off guard cause he was teasing and friendly and of course there are distant relatives who i can't recall offhand. but finally i asked him, ok i give up what is your name? and he must have figured the gig was up cause he got off the line. this is a scam artist, looking for money, period.
I just received the same call. I asked them to call back. It gave me time to verify if the person they were impersonating was in Santa Barbara as they said. The male caller uses the same stories as above. Poses a relative or friend of a relative. Says he was in an accident, needs money to pay for the injury of the daughter of the driver. He called again asking if we verified and thankfully I verified our relative has not even left his home this morning and entered his number on Google and found we aren't the only ones attempting to be bamboozled.
***OJO estos personages quieten sacar dinero. Dicen que son familiares. Que estuvieron en un accidente. Que necessitate dinero. NO manden dinero. No les den informacion. OJO****
Just now received a call from this number. He spoke in Spanish and said," Don't you remember me? I'm from the other side of your family. Not the ***** side." He knew one of our last names. How? I'm glad I looked up the number. I just kept telling him, I have no idea who you are and asking for his name. He hung up.