My son's grandmother-in-law, she is 90 yrs old has received a similar phone call that he was in England and had had an accident and needed a certain amount of money sent right then so he could come home. Fortunately her daughter-in-law was finally able to get her to say why she needed to do this. Oh by the way she did withdraw the money and went to Wal-Mart to have the money sent. Then her daughter-in-law finally got the truth from her and they went back to Wal*Mart the next day and they were holding the money until Monday because they had heard of this type of scam. Unfortunately a year later she received another call and instructions to take the money to another money carrier and she talked her new maid, who did not speak or understand English well to take her and she lost about a thousand dollars. Her phone number has since been changed and I am hoping it will not happen again. She will be 91 in January and still lives on her own in her own home. No longer drives but otherwise does everything else on her own.