We enter, many have our phone numbers! Be careful!

[desertdance]

Got a call this morning from "my oldest grandson" Nice young man. Only problem is my oldest grandson is 8 years old! This man said he knew he could trust me not to call the family, but he broke his nose last night. He confessed he was kidding with me, he is my oldest nephew! I didn't get the segue. He went from grandson to nephew in a nano!

He said he was in the dominican republic flown there for a wedding by his friend Tylor's mom's wedding.... I'm listening.... He said he got a broken nose from a crash (I'm keeping it simple), he got a DUI, and so could I send $1500? I listened through the whole dammn thing! I'm thinking, "who is this?" Never occured to me that I don't have nephews. Only child. But, I thought, OK, the ex......... Could this be Patsy's son? Eventually, he said his friend's mom paid most of the thing off, but he can't get out of jail because his bank takes 3-5 days to send the money. NOW I wake up. Which bank? BOA. OK, so I say, "which city? I'll go down there and give them hell." At this point, he hung up!

Be careful....

 

[rlsuaso]

I don't see what this has to do with entering sweeps. This scam happens to a lot of older people- might as well blame your AARP registration, or being in the phone book, or any number of other things, unless you have some kind of proof that it has to do with sweeping. I do agree that one should be careful, though.

 

[sweepsadv]

I think it could happen to sweepers but it happened to me a few months ago just by ordering something
"not online" . Invest in a shredder if you don't already have one. :wave:

 

[amyshulk]

Trips me out when people IRL approach me like they know me and try to get a cig or money off me, I can't imagine someone trying that on the phone - I bet that was surreal!!! :crazytongue:

As to where they got your number? As noted, there are so many ways, it's impossible to say which is the culprit.