Vet scammed by phony sheriff’s deputy
Someone dropped off a link from Alabama local news about a scumbag who scammed $14000 from a World War II veteran. Apparently, the veteran was somehow scammed out of $5k a few months go, but never reported it. This phony sheriff’s deputy shows up and tells the veteran that he’s going to try and bust the first scammer;
He asked the victim to withdraw $9,000 cash and additional $5,000 cashier’s check to use as “bait money” to catch the bad guys.
The victim agreed after the man assured him his money would be returned.
Deputies say the suspect rode with the victim as the elderly man withdrew the money from his bank. The suspect then asked to be dropped off down the street “in case they were being watched,” Christian said.
The victim then picked up the suspect and was instructed to drive to a convenience store on Highway 150 and Raymond Muscoda Road, deputies said.
When the two arrived at the location, the suspect took the check so he could “get fingerprints on it,” Christian said.
After walking around the building, the suspect returned and gave the victim the check back. He then asked the man for the cash to repeat the process.
The suspect took the victim’s cash and walked around the building, but did not return.
The phony deputy is a serious POS. But, I have trouble understanding how the veteran would think he wasn’t being scammed again.
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“But, I have trouble understanding how the veteran would think he wasn’t being scammed again.”
A very strong possibility that he’s at the point in his life where the brain is starting to degrade making him susceptible to this kind of thing. [And I certainly don’t mean that in any sort of derogatory way. It’s a simple fact that it happens.]
Jonn the only point I disagree with is your last statement.
“But, I have trouble understanding how the veteran would think he wasn’t being scammed again.”
FOr him to be a WWII veteran he would be, at the Minimium, 87 years old, maybe 86. THe elderly are always preyed on by scumsuckers due to their slightly diminsished capacity.
propsguy, gravel: bingo. Had a relative in their late 70s get scammed out of several thousand. That’s what tipped us off to the fact that they were in the early stages of dementia.
Hondo…Yep it was tried on my mother in her late 70s. A guy in an Army uniform made his way through the retirement apartments where she lived as well as many other WWII widows and veterans. Claimed to be helping WWII veterans and their widows and promised a huge return on her “donation”. Thankfully, before she wrote a check, she called me all excited about it and I said, mama, hold your horses and don’t do anything till I get there. He had been gone a half hour by then and I explained to her it was a scam. He played on her sympathies about my dad and his WWII service as he did with all the ladies there. They all loved company and talking, so they were wide open doors to a POS like him. I got his description and called the police. They came and took a report. I told them he could be working the two other retirement buildings nearby and sure enough, as they pulled up to the first one, this POS comes out. I see their lights as I am leaving my mama’s place and being in a mood to tear him a new ass hole I went over and stopped. They had him in cuffs. I asked if I could talk to him and they said yes but remember, if you touch him, we’ll have to arrest you for assault. So I kept a distance but laid out to him what a worthless piece of shit he was. I also told him I knew the county jailer as my neighbor and would be giving him a call to be sure he was “treated right” in county lockup, hopefully with the local gang bangers. Then the officers said that’s enough, move on now. I did ask him, “Sir, if you’ll uncuff him for two minutes and even give him your baton, I’ll make sure he looks great to head to the ER, then jail”. He smiled and said, “My mother lives in this building and I know what you’re asking. I feel the same and… Read more »
The WWII vet is my mother’s generation. They just assume that everyone is ‘nice’ and being honest with them.
The same thing happens when the Travelers blow through some town, bulldozing old people into hiring them to do crappy work that doesn’t need to be done, and stealing their cash.
Con artists look for people in their dotage, like this vet, all the time. They really pisse me off A LOT. You got gray hair, that makes you too senile to know the difference between night and day.
However, I will say that any time someone wants money from me, he’d better have a really good reason for it, like such as a working cash register at the grocery store.
I hope they find that scumbag and hang him up by his heels.
For those unfamiliar with the “Travelers”, the best way to describe them would be Irish Gypsies. They usually are based out of South Carolina, and travel up and down the Eastern seaboard scamming older folks with sub-par roof repair jobs. They are Avery closed community, no marriages outside of their immediate group, and they like to marry off the daughters at a young age.
This is a total Phil Monkress move.
It could be him. Phildo hangs out around Huntsville, he has claimed he is a Sherriff’s Deputy (Brevard County, though) in the past and business, by all accounts, has not been that good.
Christmas is coming up as well. Maybe Phildo was trying to score some extra cash for the holidays.
Fuck this assdouche sideways in the ass straight to hell. Using a Stihl 044 with a 34-inch bar and a dull, rusty chain. Slowly. Similarly, fuck his accomplices, his family, his friends, his pets, his neighbors, and anybody who signed high junior high yearbook. There’s a special part of hell reserved for base shitbags like this.
Now – you’ve gone just a bit too far there, TOW. Leave the pets alone!
Jonn, I am an elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation investigator. These scams are so common. If the vet had any degree of dementia then completing the scam is too easy. Since cash was involved it is hard to track. I’ve probably got 15 cases like this that I am working right now. Some of my victims are vets. What is simple for us to see as a scam is very difficult for the elderly to recognize.