Seniors
Related: About this forumWe got "promoted"
In addition to the usual calls about our credit cards, or "replying to inquires" or from "Nancy, our Medicare patient advocate" we now hear, as we answer: grandpa! or grandma!
I just hang up. Spouse replies You are a scammer! and than hangs up.
Sometimes I wonder, since the goal is to provide directions on how to send money, whether it can help if I use my cell phone to call the police and let them on the conversation, if the "guidelines" can assist in catching the scammers but am not sure.
delisen
(6,576 posts)woodsprite
(12,242 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,842 posts)"Grandma!" calls. I wonder if the people making them do a bit of research to determine if the person they're calling actually has grandchildren. I don't, and I'm reasonably certain that if I didn't I wouldn't fall for that scam.
question everything
(49,084 posts)But, give it time..