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Originally Posted by RoadGame
Does anybody here have experience with being the victim of financial crimes?
Someone in recent days scammed an elderly member of my family out of a lot of money; it wasn't quite "Nigerian Prince" levels of obvious but still pretty dumb "I'm your son/daughter in trouble, phone doesn't work, need the money now" kind of a ploy and unfortunately it worked. To effect the transfer the scammer provided a name, home address and bank account. I'm urging said family member to file a police report and hoping that given the criminal provided personal identifying information and is probably relying on shame/embarassment for the crime to go unreported, maybe there's a hope if a report actually does get filed?
Hoping to occupy my mind with feedback from the CP hivemind rather than trying to figure out how to find a Sicilian collections agent for hire in Scarborough.
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Good luck! Honestly.
I had this happen to my mother just a couple weeks ago.
She got a text 'from me' saying that I was broke and my phone doesnt work so I'm using someone else's phone, please send money, thanks!
Thankfully she was smart enough to at least check! She actually believed it, instead of even just trying to call my cell...for whatever reason, she called my office where she got my receptionist.
"Hey Locke, your mom says you're broke...you need money? You sent her a link from someone else's phone?"
- "DO NOT CLICK THAT"
Some of these scams are wild, and we all think we're too smart to buy them, but some can be pretty convincing. The authorities treat them like they're harmless but they can be very damaging.
For instance, in my line of work I deal with CRA all the time, one of their constant bitches is:
"Nobody believes its actually us!"
Well...whose fault is that? You should have been ruthless in putting down all of those CRA scams, but you let them go on for years so now nobody believes its actually you when you call them.