Maryland police looking for grandparent scam suspect
The suspect allegedly contacted elderly individuals to inform them that their grandchild was in jail. They needed money for the grandchild’s release. The article provided an example where the suspect contacted an 84-year-old claiming to be one of the 84-year-old’s grandchildren. This “grandchild” needed money to be released. The “grandchild” provided information on how that money could be delivered. The 84-year-old followed the instruction and then handed the money to a “courier” assigned to collect the money.
From Fox News:
Police in Maryland are offering a $10,000 reward in the hunt for the suspect behind a “grandparent scam” that has targeted at least three senior citizens.
The incidents — in which victims are told their family members are in jail and that they need to hand over money to secure their release — unfolded between May 31 and June 3 outside of Washington, D.C., according to the Montgomery County Police Department.
“This crime is known to law enforcement as the ‘grandparent scam,'” the department said in a statement. “Detectives have released surveillance footage of the suspect and are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying him.”
Police say in the first incident, an 84-year-old victim in Poolesville was “contacted by a suspect claiming to be her grandson, stating that he was in jail and needed money to secure his release.”
Fox News has the article here.
Category: Exploitation, Society, WTF?, YGBSM!!
I’d be happy seeing scammers swinging from a gallows.
If my kid ever scammed an elderly person like that I’d kick their ass like a field goal.
Where can one get some exploding dye packs or stuff that makes dog poop do the same? (For those without grandkids, it’d be fun if such couriers picked up something more appropriate instead.)
Looks like those government, taxpayer-funded contracts that are feloniously acquired by the False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) are drying up.
Phildo et al are working a new angle, I see….
Damn, GT! You beat me to it. Montgomery County in the house.
He’s probably using Palmer to pick up the money.
Maybe.
Phildo owes him 20 large.
Well you fuckers don’t disappoint.
I was expecting something about a midnight drop in a doorless mailbox off Wilson Lane,
But apparently those are outdated instructions.
I’m glad you turd burglars stepped up and covered this angle
Hack Stone received a phone call that the Vice President of the proud but humble woman owned business formerly located on Wilson Lane in Bethesda Maryland was in custody of the Montgomery County Sheriffs Office. They were demanding $10,000 for his release. Hack Stone counter offered with 50 copies of outdated Red Hat Software. Then they counter offered $5,000. Hack Stone came back with 50 copies of outdated Red Hat Software and the door to the corporate headquarters mailbox. Then they counter offered, saying that they would just release him. Hack Stone said “No deal! We want you to give us a $3 leisure suit from Goodwill, and an All Points Logistics baseball cap.” We are waiting to hear back from them.
“Ransom of Red Chief”
Sadly this is actually a very common scam these days.
Not having any student loans, I like to play ign’ant when such “student loan forgiveness package” folk call: “I ain’t got no student loans… but I can get some… gimme some money, how much I get?!” (They usually want to get off the phone pretty quick.)
PFFFFTTTT…….
If some asshole called saying that my g’child was in jail & needed bail money………….
my response would be, “they’re in jail? GOOD! they can stay there until arraignment or trial. tell me where they are. I want to watch this.”
A special place in hell awaits the scammers’ arrivals.
I had a young Mexican Soldier come back from leave, I ask him how it went. He tells me he’s sitting on the couch at his grandma’s, she’s having a long talk with someone on the phone. He hears her say yes, she’ll get the money on gift cards as soon as she can. She hangs up, turns to him and says “Mijo, you’re in jail in Nogales, are you ok?” Then walks off laughing.
I was a potential victim of this scam. They even put my adult
“son” on the phone. He claimed his nose was broken in the car accident with his truck (apparently, they had cotton rolls stuffed up his nose so I wouldn’t recognize it wasn’t his voice). They had me going for a while about getting the payment for the bond premium. Then, I told them I was a retired attorney. They were supposed to call back about arranging the bail bond premium payment. In the meantime, I called my granddaughter to say her dad was in jail. Her response, “no, he isn’t; he is sitting right next to me on the couch; want to talk to him?”
I think they dropped me from the scam as they were afraid I might be a retired LEO lawer.
They hang up immediately if you tell them you are police. Unless you are police double check your local laws to make sure this isn’t a crime.
Really? What’s the scammer going to do? Report you to the cops?
Before this damned cancer robbed ol’ Poe of most of his mental energy, he used to occasionally enjoy stringing them out, playing dumb, asking them all kinds of irrelevant questions and making them repeat everything multiple times.
They always disconnect in frustration… 😜
My crafty ol’ dad loved to fuck with con-men and telemarketers on the phone. Since he was retired and nothing better to do, he always tried to keep them on the phone as long as possible.
Don’t ad-lib some badass phone trashtalk from the Taken series either (unless you are actually qualified and allowed) for the same reasons.
Or, counselor, since you self-identified as a lawer, they were likely afraid of getting scammed… 😜
Lori Benton is still around. She is a real Attorney, by the way.
She is used to representing scumbags like Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics).
Phew! At first I read that as “Barbi Benton.” Wow … wow … !
So, you are thinking they feared the reverse lawer scam, where I convince them to send me money. Would that were so, then I’d always talk to them.
P.S.: Keep up the fight; we know you are a tough old bird.
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I say again….we gonna need more wood chippers.
I think if we had a death penalty by woodchippers, it definitely would be a deterrent. But that damned 8th Amendment would likely get in the way.