My mother got a call from someone saying he was her Grandson. Even gave her his name Do to her hard of hearing the phone was given to me.
The person said that he was being detained at the U S Embassy on drug charges. Right there is where they have you hooked in. He passed the phone to someone else that told me that he was Officer Micheal Jones and he was working on the case. They needed me to send money to Bail my Nephew out of jail. I was told that because he was in Lima Peru and there laws are different than here and there is a time difference that I had to do this quickly. He was going to be seeing a Judge. So I did. I sent 3,500.00.
A couple hours later I got a call. Officer Jones told me that my Nephew was found innocent of all charges. There was though a problem I had sent to much money. He said that it looked to the Judge as if I was trying to pay off the Officer. What I needed to do was to send the correct amount.3,400.00. Office Jones also informed me that my Nephew said if I couldn`t get the money together he would rather commit Suicide than to sit in a Peruvian Jail. So I sent the money
I got a call a few hours later telling me that my Newphew and his friend were at the air port. While they were waiting for there plain the were jumped. My Nephew had last his passport. To get another one it would be another 2,800.00. I had made a phone call and my friend told my that I had been scammed. She was right. I made a phone call to a Government Agency and they knew exactly what I was talking about. So they took it from there.
This person that calls himself officer Jones still calls but I am no longer on the other end.
I am sharing this because we really don`t know how vulnerable we are until some thing like this happens. They play on your emotions. We are out the money that`s ok. I thought what I was doing was the right thing helping someone in need. This has changed me though. Because of the things they said to get this money is what bothers me the most. I definitely am not as trusting. This is going to take some time to get over. Not only am I invovled but so is my mother and daughter. I had to sit down with my nephew and tell him what happened.
I hope that someone sees this and that it doesn`t happen to them
God Bless
My mother got a call from someone saying he was her Grandson. Even gave her his name Do to her hard of hearing the phone was given to me.
The person said that he was being detained at the U S Embassy on drug charges. Right there is where they have you hooked in. He passed the phone to someone else that told me that he was Officer Micheal Jones and he was working on the case. They needed me to send money to Bail my Nephew out of jail. I was told that because he was in Lima Peru and there laws are different than here and there is a time difference that I had to do this quickly. He was going to be seeing a Judge. So I did. I sent 3,500.00.
A couple hours later I got a call. Officer Jones told me that my Nephew was found innocent of all charges. There was though a problem I had sent to much money. He said that it looked to the Judge as if I was trying to pay off the Officer. What I needed to do was to send the correct amount.3,400.00. Office Jones also informed me that my Nephew said if I couldn`t get the money together he would rather commit Suicide than to sit in a Peruvian Jail. So I sent the money
I got a call a few hours later telling me that my Newphew and his friend were at the air port. While they were waiting for there plain the were jumped. My Nephew had last his passport. To get another one it would be another 2,800.00. I had made a phone call and my friend told my that I had been scammed. She was right. I made a phone call to a Government Agency and they knew exactly what I was talking about. So they took it from there.
This person that calls himself officer Jones still calls but I am no longer on the other end.
I am sharing this because we really don`t know how vulnerable we are until some thing like this happens. They play on your emotions. We are out the money that`s ok. I thought what I was doing was the right thing helping someone in need. This has changed me though. Because of the things they said to get this money is what bothers me the most. I definitely am not as trusting. This is going to take some time to get over. Not only am I invovled but so is my mother and daughter. I had to sit down with my nephew and tell him what happened.
I hope that someone sees this and that it doesn`t happen to them
God Bless