Please do report the caller to the FTC, FBI, Dept of Justice and your state's Attorney General. I hope your parents know by now that if someone is arrested, they pay bail with CASH - at the jail/holding cells - or pay a bail bondsman a percentage with cash, check or credit card at the bail bondsman's place of business. You never pay bail via a reloadable, prepaid MC/Visa gift card!
An man imposing as a Police officer called my father saying that my son was arrested for smoking pot in the school parking lot. He told my dad to go to CVS to buy $3000 worth of Mc/Visa Gift Cards and call him back so he could use them to pay his bail. The clerk, thank GOD asked my father why he was purchasing so many cards and when my dad told him the clerk said don't buy them he was being scammed. My parents then reported it to the local police. These scammers are bad!!!!! To put seniors through this! I hope they are caught and thrown in jail for life!!
Please do report the caller to the FTC, FBI, Dept of Justice and your state's Attorney General. I hope your parents know by now that if someone is arrested, they pay bail with CASH - at the jail/holding cells - or pay a bail bondsman a percentage with cash, check or credit card at the bail bondsman's place of business. You never pay bail via a reloadable, prepaid MC/Visa gift card!
This happend to my grandmother today as well. A girl got on the phone crying pretending to be my sister-in-law and my grandma called my mom to drive her because the weather was too bad. I called them back and asked for my sister-in-law to which she replied "we don't have a ____ here right now, who is calling" When I said her sister-in-law she hung up. Mean people suck!!! Good for the cashier though, we need to alert more cashiers to do so. Not all elderly people are so keen as you would think to "know by now," sadly.