I have a friend whose mom got caught up in the scam where they said she had won a lot of money but she needed to wire them money first before they could send it to her. She was wiring money to Jamaica on a regular basis.The manager at the pharmacy where she was wiring money from warned her that she shouldn't be doing that but she insisted. Then, her phone number was circulated around and a bunch of these Jamaican scammers were calling her. She considered them her friends. By the time my friend discovered this was happening his mother was out about $100K. He turned it over to authorities but they could do nothing about it since the scammers were in Jamaica. You just have to remain skeptical and whenever something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
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