This happened to my mom today also. Same story. She got a call from my brother. He said he had been in a car accident after going to a wedding in Virginia and that he had been arrested for DUI. He said he had a broken nose from the air bag. He put his public defender lawyer on the phone. His name was Peter. He did not give her much information but said that the bail was going to be $250,000 but that the court would accept 10% ($25,000) for him to get out of jail. He said he would call later in the day. She called me in histerics. I went to her house and waited for the phone call. He did call back, he said his name was Peter Morgan. He said he would send me an E-mail with all the particulars and that we could talk again later. He gave me a return telephone number of 1-866-971-3388. After about a half hour, I called it, but it was an auto repair business in New Mexico. Then I searched thin internet and found this site and reaized it was a scam. I was relieved that my brother was OK. I was able to get him on the phone later at work. No money sent but it was emotionally draining.
I received a call from someone pretending to be my grandson. He claimed he was in jail on the Canadian side of Niagra Falls and had been arrested for being in an accident and DUI. I was to call a
Peter Morgan at the 1-438-402-7507 number. I called my daughter and learned that my grandson is in school in New York today.
We also received a call today at around 2:00PM from a young lady pretending to be our daughter. She also stated that she was in jail on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and had been arrested for being in an accident and DUI. We were asked to call Peter Morgan at 1-438-402-7507. This so call Peter Morgan asked that we Western Union $985.00 to Hamilton Canada. He said he was working Pro-Bono for our daughter and was waiving the $4,000.00 fee and only wanted us to send $985.00 so he could bail her out and drive her to the airport to catch the next flight out. Pay close attention to these types of calls and you can put together that it is a scam from all the holes and lies they tell.
My wife's grandmother rec'd the same sort of call. A woman claimed to be my wife. My wife's grandmother mentioned the call to her daughter in law, and she called my wife. No money changed hands, but the number for Peter Morgan was 438-993-6160. I called him a couple of times until he sent me to voicemail. His voicemail wasn't set up, so I went ahead and set it up for him. I changed the password to his voicemail and created an outgoing message that instructed people not to send money. Hopefully I saved a few people a couple of bucks. The phone # was disconnected after about 5 weeks.
My mom got this call yesterday. It was in reference to my son. She told me about it today. I started snooping because that's my job. I knew my son was at work and home in Virginia yesterday. Thank god for the internet. Thank god for my mother's poor eyesight. I have no doubt ,she would have tried to use her bank card to get her grandson out of trouble.
I'm going to jump on the bandwagon to get some of these ---holes caught. I know it's a large network, but we can try to get to some of them. Everyone, contact the FTC-Federal Trade Commission. They need to document these calls. Spread the word to friends, family, coworkers and your church family. Let's do our part to limit their victim pool. It's our job.
This happened to my mom today also. Same story. She got a call from my brother. He said he had been in a car accident after going to a wedding in Virginia and that he had been arrested for DUI. He said he had a broken nose from the air bag. He put his public defender lawyer on the phone. His name was Peter. He did not give her much information but said that the bail was going to be $250,000 but that the court would accept 10% ($25,000) for him to get out of jail. He said he would call later in the day. She called me in histerics. I went to her house and waited for the phone call. He did call back, he said his name was Peter Morgan. He said he would send me an E-mail with all the particulars and that we could talk again later. He gave me a return telephone number of 1-866-971-3388. After about a half hour, I called it, but it was an auto repair business in New Mexico. Then I searched thin internet and found this site and reaized it was a scam. I was relieved that my brother was OK. I was able to get him on the phone later at work. No money sent but it was emotionally draining.