"Your son has been in an accident. Give us money or we will kill him. Also we will [***] your wife - she is [***] - did you know that? And when we are done we will kill her, we no [***] around with you. Give us money".
(All in an angry and demanding tone of voice, but very untrained in delivery - as it seems like they were thinking about the other calls they needed to make). I told him I will report them to the FBI. He didn't care, and called back 1 minute after I hung up. I did not pick up the second time.
Strong spanish accent.
Friday, July 6 11:26 AM - from a 'Rafael' guy he said: "Hello, you speak spanish?" (in heavy Puerto Rican spanish accent), to which I said "Yes". He continued "There's being an accident, HE gave me your phone for a family to reach out" and hung up. This was the first suspicion I had. He hanged up. So I called all my immediate relatives, they were all ok. I no longer live in Orlando, FL (they're calling with a Puerto Rico number but they are located in Orlando, FL) so I got more suspicious. They called a second time, 11.58 AM. He said "Hello, this is Rafy, who is this?" To which I said nothing, only asked "So, what is this incident about, who is involved, what are we talking about here?". He asked "What incident?" and hung up. The most important part here is, even when I got very stressed about the possibility of something really going on, that I never TOLD HIM ANYTHING, gave no names, nothing. So, even when under stress, keep calm and ask the basic questions:
1) If my brother told you to call me, why are you asking me if I speak spanish? He surely knows I do!
2) Why no names, no information given?
3) Why no one else (Police, other) is calling me within the first 30 minutes?
4) Why are they hanging up?
Needless to say, this was stressful nevertheless. The phone is a mobile from AT&T in Orlando, FL. Orlando PD criminal investigation said (I called him this morning) it is a SCAM going on.
Good luck, and if you're the criminal who is doing this and reading right now, I'm not hoping, I know you'll burn in !@#$%^&* hell if there's one. And if not, one will get created just for you.