Scammers are stepping up their game.

I need more of this grandma scamming the scammers.

this is actually extremely scary

My aunt and uncle live in the Midwest and were hit with this scam.

Someone tried this on my grandparents years ago. Luckily my grandpa who passed away at 95 was sharp as a tack the whole time. They claimed they were one of my cousins and they were on vacation in Hawaii and they got stranded in some way and needed money to come home. Turns out my cousin had in fact been in Hawaii like a month before and somehow they knew this and factored it into the scam. If I recall correctly my grandpa was like

"I know you're not him because he would know we'd never have any money to send, so he'd never call us".

Happened to both my grandparents and my partners mother in my name. They somehow knew a lot about me.

I got a call from “my grandson.” Unfortunately, he forgot to call me by the name he has always called me since he could first speak. Sadly, he “rear ended a pregnant woman’s car” and was in jail.

I told him I could never tell the difference between him and his twin brother and asked if it was Lloyd or Floyd. (There are no twins and those names are bogus). He picked Lloyd and said his lawyer would call me later.

When the lawyer called, I told him this didn’t make any sense. Lloyd was Floyd’s conjoined twin and had been in a nursing home since they were separated years ago with only a partial brain. I told him I would couldn’t figure how even Floyd would be driving anywhere since he had been in jail since after the operation when he tried to murder Lloyd. Maybe the lawyer was confused? Was he talking about their identical triplet Boyd? Or their sister Murgatroyd?

This is why families need a code word. When a scammer calls, pretending to be a family member, ask for the code word.

There was a stretch of like 5-10 years or so where my grandparents would get calls about me getting in a car accident or I'd be in jail and needing money.I would have to tell them every time I talked to them that I would never ask them for money.

They stopped getting them I think a little bit ago and it's just Grandma now. She's prolly too busy socializing in her senior community apartment place to ever be around for the phone calls now haha. She's usually hustling the other old ladies for coins playing cards in their apartments till late at night lol.

The cadence and some of the vocabulary makes me think this is an Indian dude with a voice modulator

My grandma used to get these calls all the time and used to love going along with them

She'd say "as long as they're talking to me they're not calling someone else who might actually fall for it"

They also managed to have their phone# confused with a famous local church and they'd get parishioners calling all the time. Those were fun for my grandpa who liked to pretend he was the priest 😅