Rebel_Rider1969
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You tried to help. That alone is admirable. Hats off to you.
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Disabled vet likely being scammed in Tampa area, urgently need help/resources-LE no use
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they are in ok, i am in florida
I hate to be pessimistic but I think it's more likely that the old man is knowingly getting gift cards for some other reason and he himself was lying to the cashier. But hey I wasn't there and I didn't see him to see how convincing he was, so there's that... still I have a hard time believing a grown man is dumb enough to do $90,000 by gift cards for a car, so I think there must be some other reason. You would do best just to stay out of it before you get wrapped up messing with money from the mafia or a cartel
A lot of old people don’t understand all the scams going on today. They grew up in a world where you didn’t lock your doors.
Heck, it wasn’t that long ago that I knew a young guy that was all excited about buying a 4 Wheeler from Australia for 1/4th of what it was worth with free shipping.
Some people just haven’t caught on.
Heck, it wasn’t that long ago that I knew a young guy that was all excited about buying a 4 Wheeler from Australia for 1/4th of what it was worth with free shipping.
Some people just haven’t caught on.
ABlaster
Marksman
This is from my previous post:
I had a friend whose father literally gave away his life's savings (almost $150K) because he believed there was some American serviceman stuck in Afghanistan that couldn't get home any other way besides through a whole lot of Visa gift cards. I think it is a version of a mental illness, or, like Mark Twain said (paraphrasing) "It's easier to fool people a second time than to convince them they were fooled the first time."
Have you considered writing a letter to the editor of your local daily rag? Another option would be to give your number to the cashier and ask her to ask the man to call you. If the guy comes to buy every day, Mr. concerned citizen knows what time the guy shows up and could cover the door around that time tomorrow. The possibilities are endless.
Unfortunately it was a location I was just passing through on the way from work over an hour from my home so not much I can do locally. I passed all the info I know to a local veterans organization who says they’d take it from there so I’m out of the game now. Hope it works out. Still kinda ticked off LE wouldn’t look into it. Shameful.
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My phone rings from 30-50 calls a day from mostly indian scammers. This is not only me, but really world wide for english speaking countries. Occasionally the FBI does something, but it is very little. Some of the telephone electronics for the robo calls I believe does happen in the USA and I think most of my calls are coming from the same center.
The feds if they cared could electronically and legally stop those those calls. There are federal laws about interstate fraud.
Likely this theft is totaling into the billions of dollars. But as noted the local authorities, the federal authorities, the banks, etc just do not care to stop it.
A lot of the scammers on the phones are actually religious. I have told them, can I trust you. They of course say yes. Then I say swear by god. Mostly here it goes click. Or they claim they are christians. I say tell me about John 3:16. Duh or if you swear by god, will you swear by Allah. Click goes the phone. I only had one that said she believed in Yahweh the creator of us all.
The feds if they cared could electronically and legally stop those those calls. There are federal laws about interstate fraud.
Likely this theft is totaling into the billions of dollars. But as noted the local authorities, the federal authorities, the banks, etc just do not care to stop it.
A lot of the scammers on the phones are actually religious. I have told them, can I trust you. They of course say yes. Then I say swear by god. Mostly here it goes click. Or they claim they are christians. I say tell me about John 3:16. Duh or if you swear by god, will you swear by Allah. Click goes the phone. I only had one that said she believed in Yahweh the creator of us all.
Rebel_Rider1969
Well Known Nuisance
I like how they can spoof people's phone numbers. Call it back and somebody who knows nothing about it answers. Just some regular Joe or Jane. It's criminal.
PensacolaOperator
Expert
Poor guy. Really boils my balls that people fall for that scheme all the time. But as a fellow disabled Navy Veteran, albeit a bit younger (OIF/OEF/GWOT) he should know better. If it's too good to be true, it is.
But I still take care not to blame the victim too much.
Zeroed in
Master
I had a Spamer guy call yesterday wanting to give me a free, no obligation assessment on my back taxes, I just needed to answer a few questions to see if I "qualify" and I could get $$$ forgiven.
So I asked him (a foreigner) if he has taken advantage of it, he stumbled on the question a bit, so I repeated it. Then he says, Oh yes, I have and he was happy. Then he asks me if I owed back taxes and where was I working.
I said, well, I just got out of prison just 2 weeks ago and haven't got a job yet.
He asks again if I owed any taxes. I said I didn't think so because I had been in prison for the past 20 years and I just got released.
So, do you think I owe taxes, I asked. He said okay and hung up. lmao
So I asked him (a foreigner) if he has taken advantage of it, he stumbled on the question a bit, so I repeated it. Then he says, Oh yes, I have and he was happy. Then he asks me if I owed back taxes and where was I working.
I said, well, I just got out of prison just 2 weeks ago and haven't got a job yet.
He asks again if I owed any taxes. I said I didn't think so because I had been in prison for the past 20 years and I just got released.
So, do you think I owe taxes, I asked. He said okay and hung up. lmao
They really want to keep your talking. They often after information and almost anything could be useful.
Somewhere along the line he was hoping to get a social security number is my guess.
I had one that said for me to give him the last four digits of my credit card number and then he rattled off all of the other digits. How he had those I wonder. But he had a very old address that was no longer good. If they ask for the last for digits of anything I tell them 44-40 or 32-20.
Bluewater Tactical
Expert
Unfortunately I went down that rabbit hole investigating one of those gift card scams one time there was no way to track it down. Soon as the money went into one account that transferred to another account to another account to another account. They already have these things preset to screw people over.
