My wife was the recipient of a rather nasty scam call today. Our 15-year-old son was driving, in snow, for the first time, to a school event up at the ski hill when she got the call. It was from a strange number, but she answered because she was nervous about him.
The caller sounded like he was crying, and claimed he had been in a wreck and had broken his nose. The voice could plausibly have been our son under stress and with a plugged up nose. She kept trying to ask questions, such as where he was, but got back replies that didn’t answer the questions. Those replies were engineered to ratchet up the anxiety. (These were mentions of the police coming to arrest him, among other things.)
At some point, the caller identified himself using our son’s first name. In hindsight, though, she realized that she probably said his name, though she didn’t remember doing so. (I know she did, as I heard her talking and her tone of voice and use of his name drew me out of my office to see what was going on.)
Fortunately, the caller said some things that our son would never have said, and I could see on Find My that he was safely traveling up the expected road. She repeatedly asked the caller for a last name, and eventually got one that was not correct, at which point she hung up.
It was a really terrible experience, and it took her a long time to relax, even after we knew (from Find My) that our son had arrived safely at his destination. These scammers deserve some special treatment in hell.
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@thomasareed Jiminy, what a bastard. Infuriating.
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@thomasareed some shithead did that to my grandmother. I’m of an old school Old Testament vengeful wrath sort of mindset in punishing people that do this bullshit.
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