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IronLionZion

(45,446 posts)
1. Serious allegations!
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 10:25 AM
Aug 2020

So serious we can't tell you what they are, but we're sending officers to arrest you right now.

rainin

(3,011 posts)
5. This is really important for everyone to see. Personally, it's not amusing
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 11:22 AM
Aug 2020

because calls like this can be frightening for some people, especially elderly people who may be confused. Maybe I'm too serious, but nothing about this is fun. They wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't working. Very sad

cab67

(2,993 posts)
6. People like this drained my grandfather's assets.
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 12:35 PM
Aug 2020

He had Alzheimer's, and until my mother and uncle got power of attorney, he lost a lot of money.

marble falls

(57,097 posts)
15. My parents took my granparents to live with them in Tempe, Az. By the tome they got there, he ...
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 11:15 PM
Aug 2020

was pretty gone he lived another six or so years. My grandmother lived another eight or ten more.

He had boxes of rail road stock. It brought a fraction of what he paid for it, he'd been buying since the 1920's.

It wasn't an easy sell.

PatrickforO

(14,574 posts)
10. Yeah, I have had a little 'fun' with these scammers in the past, but you are quite
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:47 PM
Aug 2020

right. They are the utter scum of the earth, and will leave you destitute and then laugh about it.

rainin

(3,011 posts)
13. As I listened to their voices, I wondered what they tell themselves to make this
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 11:07 PM
Aug 2020

acceptable in their eyes. Perhaps, they have deep-seated hatred for the "other" and we fit the profile.

Sentath

(2,243 posts)
7. Older content, but still delightful
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:25 PM
Aug 2020

Personally I like the ones where they lock the scammer out of windows and or bios.

VWolf

(3,944 posts)
8. Given the two options ....
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:33 PM
Aug 2020

"Hang up on them or have a little fun" ... I would choose the latter.

It would be great if everyone these people called had enough free time to tie up their lines for 10 minutes or so. They'd give up after just one frustrating afternoon.

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