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She went to the bank and proceeded to take out all of her money that she has saved for a long time which is not much but was ALL the money she had - $7,000!!!!! No questions asked by the bank as to why a 74 year old lady would want to withdraw all of her money and gave her the $7,000in cash. The scammers then told her to drive to Macy's and buy gift cards with the money. And sadly, she did this also. And again, no questions asked by the Macy's clerk as to why a 74 year old lady is buying $7,000 worth of gift cards with all CASH! The scammers then made her scratch off all the backs of the cards and text the pictures to them, which she also did :( By the time my mother was done and called me and I immediately knew it was a scam and told her to go back to Macy's and cancel all the cards and get her money back - the cards had all been spent across several states some of which included Bronx, NY and in Texas I believe.
I am still trying to argue with Macys about their policy for first allowing someone to sell a 74 year old lady $7,000 in gift cards with all cash and then also their policy for the use of these cards.... obviously they were bought in California and used within an hour at all different locations in many different states in the hopes that they will realize it was a scam and stop the delivery of the goods purchased with these cards and refund my mom her money!
I also think it's a good idea for the news to air something about this so that others (not just our elders) do not fall for this scam!
I learned the hard way so when so When they tell you that If you don't comply with them, that the police are coming to your house tell them to go ahead and send them. Under normal circumstances that is what I would have told them. I have had just had surgery I was under a lot of medication and I was not myself. I was scammers took me for over $10,000.00. I wish I could say I got it back but I didn't.
When I realized that this was a scam I stopped I changed my account numbers. And I called And talked a to the police to anybody that would listen to me. Put a lock on my accounts for my so security number and pretty much everything. I'm just even now trying to come back to life I am very cautious with everything that's what it's left me is being cautious. I thought in my life I would never get to this point that I would always know but, they know how All the right wordings to make someone think that they are a victim. So please be very very cautious with all phone calls, that don't seem right.