A 73-year-old lady from New York successfully foiled a phone fraud attempt and even helped arrest one of the scammers.
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“I knew he was a real crook. I also knew that he was not going to scam me”, declares the grandmother named Jean.
The former 911 dispatcher says she received a call Thursday morning from someone claiming to be one of her grandsons. The appellant claimed to have been arrested for drunk driving and was in jail.
“He started calling me grandma and I don’t have a grandson who drives, so I knew it was a scam,” says the 70-year-old.
But, rather than hang up, the woman decided to play the game for a little fun.
After several calls, a person claiming to be her grandson’s lawyer told her that he needed 8,000 US dollars (about 10,000 Canadian dollars) for bail.
“I told him that I had the money at home and I told myself that he was not going to fall into the trap! Well… he fell into the trap,” she says.
What the fraudsters did not know was that Jean had the quick thinking to contact the authorities while they were trying to convince her to hand over the sum of money to them.
When a man claiming to be a bond guarantor arrived to collect the sum, she handed him an envelope filled with paper towels.
Officers waiting a few yards from the residence rushed in and arrested Joshua Estrella Gomez, 28, of Mineola.
Such is taken who thought he was taking!
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