BonsaiNut
iMTB Rockstah
I am going to post this just to let people know this kind of Sh!t is going on.
My wife and I were just on our way home from Costco. The phone rang, and I put it on speaker phone. A young woman's voice started crying "Dad, it's me... they've got me... help!" It sounded just like my daughter. My wife and I both immediately started up with "who's got you?!", "what's going on?". She just responded "I'm blind-folded Dad... I don't know where I am".
Then we hear this angry Hispanic voice. "That's enough - give me the $#@%@ phone! Ok listen #$#@$, if you want to see your daughter alive again, you're going to get me a lot of money and you're going to get it fast! How much money you got on you right now? How much do you have in the bank?"
While he is screaming at me, I am trying to drive down the road and my wife is desperately calling home with one of her phones, and calling 911 with the other one. Fortunately we got our son on the phone almost instantly and he confirmed that our daughter was, in fact, at home with him. I immediately hung up my phone, and we talked to the Sheriff dispatcher, who sent a cruiser out to our house. Meanwhile these scammers continued to try to call my phone, but I didn't pick up.
When we talked to the Sheriff he said that sadly they get two or three calls like this a year. He asked for the number because he wanted to call it back. At that point we found out the call originated in Mexico. When I had calmed down enough to think about it, I realized that he called my cell, which has a 949 area code. So these f@ckers are calling people in Southern California and perhaps once in 1000 calls they find that one family with a daughter that they can't reach right away, and they scam into wiring them money to Mexico.
Be aware that this crap is out there.
My wife and I were just on our way home from Costco. The phone rang, and I put it on speaker phone. A young woman's voice started crying "Dad, it's me... they've got me... help!" It sounded just like my daughter. My wife and I both immediately started up with "who's got you?!", "what's going on?". She just responded "I'm blind-folded Dad... I don't know where I am".
Then we hear this angry Hispanic voice. "That's enough - give me the $#@%@ phone! Ok listen #$#@$, if you want to see your daughter alive again, you're going to get me a lot of money and you're going to get it fast! How much money you got on you right now? How much do you have in the bank?"
While he is screaming at me, I am trying to drive down the road and my wife is desperately calling home with one of her phones, and calling 911 with the other one. Fortunately we got our son on the phone almost instantly and he confirmed that our daughter was, in fact, at home with him. I immediately hung up my phone, and we talked to the Sheriff dispatcher, who sent a cruiser out to our house. Meanwhile these scammers continued to try to call my phone, but I didn't pick up.
When we talked to the Sheriff he said that sadly they get two or three calls like this a year. He asked for the number because he wanted to call it back. At that point we found out the call originated in Mexico. When I had calmed down enough to think about it, I realized that he called my cell, which has a 949 area code. So these f@ckers are calling people in Southern California and perhaps once in 1000 calls they find that one family with a daughter that they can't reach right away, and they scam into wiring them money to Mexico.
Be aware that this crap is out there.
