The more you understand about these scams, the less likely you’ll become a victim
a call I received claiming my wife had been kidnapped and demanding ransom. It came from a number that was nearly the same as my wife’s, began with a crying distraught woman, and as I explained in the column, the scammer used other tricks to make me think it might have been real. It was an extremely scary 20 minutes before I knew she was OK.That column resulted in numerous emails, including some from readers who had similar experiences.
DeStafano was around other people and had someone else call 911. In my case, I was alone but called 911 on the other line while putting my cell phone on speaker. Like me, DeStafano figured out it as a scam and eventually got a call from her daughter who was fine. Neither she nor I paid any ransom, but many others have.reported on another story where 39-year-old Benjamin Perkin’s “elderly parents lost thousands of dollars to a voice scam.
If another person is around, have them call 911 while you’re talking to the scammer. When it happened to me last week, I was alone, so I called 911 from my desk phone and let them hear the call through my cell phone’s speaker.
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