Caller was a girl claiming to be one of my teenage nieces. She had been arrested on bogus drug charges while on spring break in Florida and needed $4000 bail money. She begged me not to call her parents & handed the phone to a man who identified himself as the attorney handling her case. He instructed me to buy 4 gift cards from Target or Walmart for $1000 each, then to scratch the silver coating off the back of each card to reveal the numbers underneath, then to call him back at this phone number so that he could transfer the gift card balances to my niece's Target Mastercard account. My actual niece was in a hospital a thousand miles from Florida.
Caller was a girl claiming to be one of my teenage nieces. She had been arrested on bogus drug charges while on spring break in Florida and needed $4000 bail money. She begged me not to call her parents & handed the phone to a man who identified himself as the attorney handling her case. He instructed me to buy 4 gift cards from Target or Walmart for $1000 each, then to scratch the silver coating off the back of each card to reveal the numbers underneath, then to call him back at this phone number so that he could transfer the gift card balances to my niece's Target Mastercard account. My actual niece was in a hospital a thousand miles from Florida.